If there is anything unique about the human animal, it is that it has the ability to grow knowledge at an accelerating rate while being chronically incapable of learning from experience.

As commonly practiced, philosophy is the attempt to find good reasons for conventional beliefs.

From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.

Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire, (...) What is new is not that prosperity depends on stimulating demand. It is that it cannot continue without inventing new vices

A work of art is somehow organic, and to slash a painting or smash a statue is not just an offence against property: it is an offence against life.

He believed interim reforms were necessary in order to fix the worker for his destiny.

If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it.

Some people are just destined to be together. That's just the way it is.

In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.

In the 60′s there was a look. In the 70′s there was a look, and in the 80′s. Now, it's a free-for-all.

Cursed be he that scalps the reputation of the dead.

It's better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.

From that moment on, there will be an irreversible process to separate Quebec from Canada.

I know that Julia has been given to me for my spiritual growth, and this moment is perfect for us both. I know that I love her, and I know she's my soul mate.