Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering; the capacity for self-indulgence changes hands.

Since we cannot hope for order let us withdraw with style from the chaos.

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

When someone disagrees with you on a moral point you assume that he is one step behind in his thinking, and he assumes that he has gone one step ahead. But I t…

If lowborn men could stand up to those born to rule, religion, government, the whole world would fall to pieces...[Merlin replies]...So it would; so it will...…

I am surprised at the suddenness as well as the greatness of this revolution... It is the will of Heaven that the two countries should be sundered forever. It …

I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.