politics

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes — our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

Nothing is clearer in history than the adoption by successful rebels of the methods they were accustomed to condemn in the forces they deposed.

A politician will do anything to keep his job—even become a patriot.

You would have to have no love whatever for your country, you would have to be hostile to it, to shoot the pride of the nation - its concentrated knowledge, energy and talent! And wasn't it exactly the same...in the case of Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov?

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames, they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point…

So what happens now?

We take our next set of data and we keep waiting for the unstoppable force to collide with the immovable object.

on China's zero COVID policy