A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.