Collection of phrases and quotes about culture.
Isn't it shameful that fanatics show a lot of interest and the sensible show none?
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
Great politicians owe their reputation, if not to pure chance, to circumstances they could not foresee themselves.
With laws, it's like with sausages, it's better not to see how they are made.
There are times when a government must be liberal and others when it must be dictatorial: here everything changes and there is no eternity.
Politics is not an exact science, but an art.
The best government is the one that becomes unnecessary.
In every negotiation, the honest man is destined to take the worst part, while cunning and bad faith ultimately tally the scores.
What is everyone's business is nobody's business.
When a people have become incapable of governing themselves and are in a condition to submit to a master, it matters little where he comes from.
If only politicians and scientists were a little more lazy, how much happier would we all be?
Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe.