I don't believe we shall ever again have any form of society in which men will be free. One should not hope for it. One should not hope for anything. Hope is invented by politicians to keep the electorate happy.

The power of consumer goods . . . has been engendered by the so-called liberal and progressive demands of freedom, and, by appropriating them, has emptied them of their meaning, and changed their nature.

The revolution is now just a sentiment.

I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.

I don't believe we shall ever again have any form of society in which men will be free. One should not hope for it. One should not hope for anything. Hope is invented by politicians to keep the electorate happy.

And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.

...the Church is the merciless heart of the State.