Quotes by Conrad, Joseph

Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of y >>

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Government >>

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can >>

Quotations about Revolutions and Revolutionaries

At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already b >>

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The vi >>

More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of >>

The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one should smile at these things; but, imperfect Esthete, I am no better Philosopher. All claim to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free.

Conrad, Joseph