The True Beliver

Equality without freedom creates a more stable social pattern than freedom without equality.

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some.

We cannot be sure that we have something worth living for unless we are ready to die for it.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

It is sometimes difficult to tell where a mass migration ends and a mass movement begins—and which came first.

the art of “religiofication"—the art of turning practical purposes into holy causes.

Man would fain be great and sees that he is little; would fain be happy and sees that he is miserable; would fain be perfect and sees that he is full of imperfections; would fain be the object of the love and esteem of men, and sees that his faults merit only their aversion and contempt. The embarrassment wherein he finds himself produces in him the most unjust and criminal passions imaginable, for he conceives a mortal hatred against that truth which blames him and convinces him of his faults.
—PASCAL, Pensées