Quotes

The whole country was crammed with moral lessons, and there was no morality.

Every usurer and scoundrel could buy himself, for a few pennies, the title of ‘great patriot of the people’.

There were many liberal laws, and no freedom at all.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

War propaganda comes down, in the end, to substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings.

The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.