Quotes Library

October 21, 2025

The revolutionary spirit is mightily convenient in this: that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas.

Joseph Conrad (1857–1924), Anglo-Polish novelist, The Cynic’s Lexicon, Jonathon Green, ed. (London: 1986), p.57

What ideas, norms, beliefs would you sweep away in a fit of revolutionary zeal?

Overthrow one convention and overthrowing another is all the more easy. Revolutions feed on themselves.

June 16, 2025

1 year ago

Do not believe those who say they have voluntarily relinquished power and position for love of peace and quiet.

November 7, 2025

12 months ago

Europeans often ask and Americans do not often explain, how it happens that this great office [the presidency]

January 16, 2025

2 years ago

[On Friedrich Hayek’s Road to Serfdom] A plan to resist all planning may be better than its opposite, but it belongs to the same style of politics.

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