All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters

What comes to pass does so not so much because a few people want it to happen, as because the mass of citizens abdicate their responsibility and let things be.

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

To tell the truth is revolutionary.

Indifference is the dead weight of history.

Every State is a dictatorship.

Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.

Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work.

Besides our eyes, skin and the other senses through which we receive the shadows of the exterior reality, we have a 'mental eye' (intelligence) with which we can perceive reality as it is.

Singing is the sound of the soul.

Marina wouldn't want to be remembered because she dead. She would want to be remembered because she's good.

The thing about past love is that they exist, only in your fantasy as a fantasy.

There are those who would advocate that the voice of religion be silenced, or at least relegated to the purely private sphere.

We all drink from one water We all breathe from one air We rise from one ocean And we live under one sky

Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse

You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.

Quite the ugliest face I ever saw was that of a woman whom the world called beautiful. Through its silver veil the evil and ungentle passions looked out, hideous and hateful.

There's a very good reason that governments aren't supposed to compete with private-enterprise companies. Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.