A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. |
A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time. |
A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. |
A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor. |
A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men |
A man by himself is in bad company. |
A nation without dregs and malcontents, is orderly, decent, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come |
A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness. |
A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion. |
A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend |
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power |
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. |
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth |
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head. |
Anger is a prelude to courage. |