This, dear friends, is the progressive intellectual. Nisbet, Conservatism Almost all intellectuals profess to love humanity and to be working for its improvement and happiness. But it is the idea of humanity they love, rather than the actual individuals who compose it. They love humanity in general rather than men and women in particular. Loving humanity as an idea, they can then produce solutions as ideas.
Power is much more easily manifested in destroying than in creating.
As the revolutionary spirit grew in intensity, men surpassed their predecessors in the ingenuity of their plots and the brutality of their revenge. The ties of party were stronger than those of family, because a partisan would act without daring to ask why. No agreements were binding if there was opportunity of breaking them successfully. T is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.