“By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.”
Government“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”
Future“By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.”
Government“The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.”
Love“The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.”
War“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
Nature“Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.”
Freedom“Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.”
Good“Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”
Life“The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.”
Good“The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.”
Truth“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?”
Happiness“A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.”
Truth“The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.”
Alone“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”
Freedom“As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.”
Life“Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.”
Inspirational“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
Finance“A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.”
Freedom“Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.”
Happiness“For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.”
Death“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.”
Beauty