“Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.”

Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?

How likely are definitions to be pleasurable.

As there was never any question there was never any answer.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?

Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.

Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.

Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.

One must dare to be happy.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.

[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

Demagoguery and populism are rampant. We are the illegitimate children, the bastards of communism. It shaped our mentality.

After the fall of communism in Poland, we had a post-communist as president for two terms: Aleksander Kwasniewski. He was very good. He brought Poland into NATO and the European Union.

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.

We have to render Islamist extremism as unattractive as communism has become today.

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.