The vessel of Revolution can arrive at port only on a sea reddened by torrents of blood.

It is impossible to reign innocently.

A nation regenerates itself only upon heaps of corpses.

If all people are free, all are equal. If they are equal, they are just.

One does not make revolutions by halves.

Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.

Keep cool and you command everybody.

I have not found a single good man in government; I have found good only in the people.

I do not belong to any faction, I will fight them all.

Dare! - this word contains all the politics of our revolution.

In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue.

But I had no idea who this person might be, or who any of the people might be who sat at that table and watched me at the door and claimed to have feelings not exactly for me, but at me.

Keep you secret, then, my darling. Everybody needs them. Secrets make you tough, and wily.

Drake just stands for Do Right And Kill Everything

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses.

When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote

One happy day for every falling leaf you catch. Sam's voice was low.

Today on the way home, it snows. Big, soft caressing flakes fall onto our skin like cold moths; the air fills with feathers.

When philosophers try to understand consciousness, much of what they claim is not conceptual analysis at all, though it may be shopped under that description.

Hollywood is the gold cap on a tooth that should have been pulled out years ago.