Quote #72
Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.
More from Emile Cioran
- Schisms and heresies are nationalisms in disguise.
- A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
- A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
- A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
- Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.
- One hardly saves a world without ruling it.
- I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers.
- Jealousy-that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.