Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds – a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents.
Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.
One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.
No more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
Morality is the ultimate aspect of God, which must be destroyed before reconstruction can begin. Then God no longer exists and is no longer responsible for our existence; man must resolve to act, in order to exist.
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.
Men like us are good and proud and strong… if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had to learn everything, and living for honor alone has its weaknesses…
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death.
Martyrs, cher ami, must choose between being forgotten, mocked, or made use of. As for being understood – never!
Man is an idea, and a precious small idea, once he turns his back on love.
