"To govern means to pillage, as everyone..." - Quote by Albert Camus

“Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man.”

“No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life.”

“I have a good, hearty laugh and an energetic handshake, and those are trump cards.”

“There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state. The construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity.”

“Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Experience has taught us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession, and when the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”

“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”

“It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction. ...And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man.”

“Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.”

“Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party.”