“De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.”
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Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
