Quotes

Power is not a means; it is an end.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

The best books are those that tell you what you know already.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is to restate the obvious.

There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

Napoleon is always right.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — for ever.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

When evils are foreseen, they can be quickly remedied; but when, through not having been foreseen, they have been permitted to grow in a way that everyone can see them, there is no longer a remedy.

He who is the cause of another becoming powerful is ruined.

The first opinion which one forms of a prince, and of his understanding, is by observing the men he has around him.

There is no other way of guarding oneself from flatterers except letting men understand that to tell you the truth does not offend you.