Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.

Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.

Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.

The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system. The revolution provides him with his opium.

Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

Racism is the snobbery of the poor.