1. “The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants system. The revolution provides him with his opium .”
2. “In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject .”
3. “Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.”
4. “Peace is impossible, War is improbable.”
5. “Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.”
6. “Racism is the snobbery of the poor.”
7. “Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.”
8. “What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.”
9. “Freedom flourishes in temperate zones; it does not survive the burning faith of prophets and crowds .”
10. “Reality is always more conservative than ideology”.
