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 10, 2025

1 year ago

The trouble with the Conservative Party is that it has not turned back the clock a single second.

August 11, 2025

1 year ago

We are here to consult the interests and not to obey the will of the people, if we honestly believe that will conflicts with those interests.

December 25, 2025

10 months ago

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

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