Triumph Cannot Help Being Cruel.

Liberalism Is That Principle Of Political Rights, According To Which The Public Authority, In Spite Of Being All-powerful, Limits Itself And Attempts, Even At Ist Own Expense, To Leave Room In The State Over Which It Rules For Those To Live Who Neither Think Nor Feel As It Does, That Is To Say As Do The Stronger, The Majority.

The Past Will Not Tell Us What We Ought To Do, But... What We Ought To Avoid.

I Am Free By Compulsion, Whether I Wish To Be Or Not.

The Most Radical Division That It Is Possible To Make Of Humanity Is That Which Splits It Into Two Classes Of Creatures: Those Who Make Great Demands On Themselves, Piling Up Difficulties And Duties; And Those Who Demand Nothing Special Of Themselves, But For Whom To Live Is To Be Every Moment What They Already Are, Without Imposing On Themselves Any Effort Towards Perfection, Mere Buoys That Float On The Waves.

Barbarism Is The Absence Of Standards To Which Appeal Can Be Made.