French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.
Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.
How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!
Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.
We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.
The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.
We are all special cases.