Quote #74
A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
More from Emile Cioran
- A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
- One hardly saves a world without ruling it.
- Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.
- Jealousy-that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
- Schisms and heresies are nationalisms in disguise.
- Russia-immensity and suffocation.
- A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
- Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.