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.

December 19, 2025

10 months ago

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.

September 5, 2025

1 year ago

[On freedom of the press] The intrusion of government into this domain is symptomatic of the disease of this society.

January 20, 2025

2 years ago

The key to building a superstar is to keep their mouth shut. To reveal an artist to the people can be to destroy him.

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