Society and the World

By art is created that great Leviathan, called a commonwealth or state, (in Latin civitas) which is but an artificial man … and in which, the sovereignty is an artificial soul.

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

Only a sweet and virtuous soul,

Fine nets and stratagems to catch us in,

A servant with this clause

Away; take heed:

I struck the board, and cried, ‘No more.

Maximilien Robespierre was nothing but the hand of Jean Jacques Rousseau, the bloody hand that drew from the womb of time the body whose soul Rousseau had created.

Dort, wo man Bücher

Dort, wo man Bücher

Between my finger and my thumb

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.

What of the faith and fire within us

In the third-class seat sat the journeying boy

Yes; quaint and curious war is!

After two thousand years of mass

‘Justice’ was done, and the President of the Immortals (in Aeschylean phrase) had ended his sport with Tess.

‘Justice’ was done, and the President of the Immortals (in Aeschylean phrase) had ended his sport with Tess.

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.

In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.