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| Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. | | Uncategorized | |
| Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely. | | Uncategorized | |
| Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears. | | Uncategorized | |
| Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. | | Uncategorized | |
| More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other. | | Uncategorized | |
| More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure. | | Uncategorized | |
| Murder is terribly exhausting. | | Murder | |
| Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given | | Nature | |
| Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. | | Uncategorized | |
| Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. | | Uncategorized | |
| One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves. | | Uncategorized | |
| Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence. | | Uncategorized | |
| Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career. | | Uncategorized | |
| Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics. | | Uncategorized | |
| Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. | | Generosity; Giving | |
| Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. | | Uncategorized | |
| Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless. | | Uncategorized | |
| Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature. | | Uncategorized | |
| Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly | | Revolution | |
| Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history. | | Uncategorized | |
