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Tyranny is just what one can develop a taste for, since it so happens that man prefers to wallow in fear rather than to face the anguish of being himself.
History and Utopia (1960)
Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
History and Utopia (1960)
Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.
History and Utopia (1960)
If a man has not, by the time he is 30, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism, I don't know if he is to be admired or scorned — a saint or a corpse.
History and Utopia (1960)
Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact.
History and Utopia (1960)
Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death?
History and Utopia (1960)
Pursued by our origins...we all are.
History and Utopia (1960)
Word — that invisible dagger.
History and Utopia (1960)