Life Quote by Joseph Conrad

“As for the sins committed during his revolution, there are always criminals who conceal themselves among the restless masses to launch their malicious acts…

— Naguib Mahfouz

“We have to hand it to the little tyrants who devise the picturesque abuses of authority that give the moral populace the clear examples…

— John Popielaski

“I am becoming a tyrant, threatening in place of convincing. Unstable instead of steadying. I am suited to the shadows, to the art of…

— Holly Black

“…for it is a very solemn thing to be arrested in the midst of busy life by the possibility of the great change.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“There would be many crimes and errors which it would be beyond his power to commit, simply because they were nameless and therefore unimaginable.”

— George Orwell

“Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion…

— Mary Shelley

“The way of even the most justifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds. The Professor's indignation found in itself a final…

— Joseph Conrad

“It would seem that this is a great crime, of which they are all guilty. How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself, and to…

— Victor Hugo

“One has to bear in mind that one of the tactics of revolution is to destroy one's predecessors in authority at any cost or…

— Herbert Hoover

“[...] perhaps these thirty years of revolution had taught him that men are unfit for liberty, and he thought that he had spent his…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“This new approach, it seemed, was not to be made so publicly, not to be exposed to the expedient treason of little devious minds…

— Edith Pargeter

“His soul swayed in a vertigo of moral indecision. He had only to snap the thread of a rash vow made to a villainous…

— G.K. Chesterton