“The way of even the most justifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds. The Professor's indignation found in itself… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality--counter-moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“And Mr Verloc, temparamentally identical with his associates, drew fine distinctions in his mind on the strenght of insignificant differences. He drew… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“You revolutionists' the other continued, with leisurely self-confidence, 'are the slaves of the social convention, which is afraid of you; slaves of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Don't you know yet, he said, that an idle and selfish class loves to see mischief being made, even if it is… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Preparation for the future was necessary, and he was willing to admit that the great change would perhaps come in the upheaval… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“A fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments, is always safe.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The mind of man is capable of anything-because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive and wild -… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“All that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Thieving was not a sheer absurdity. It was a form of human industry, perverse indeed, but still an industry exercised in an industrious world;… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
