Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

In violence, we forget who we are

The rationalist mind has always had its doubts about Venice. The watery city receives a dry inspection, as though it were a myth for the credulous- poets and honeymooners.

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

A politician or political thinker who calls himself a political realist is usually boasting that he sees politics, so to speak, in the raw; he is generally a proclaimed cynic and pessimist who makes it his business to look behind words and fine speeches for the motive. This motive is always low.

Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.

If one means by style the voice, the irreducible and always recognizable and alive thing, then of course style is really everything.