Collection of phrases and quotes about culture.
It takes barely a thousand years to form a state; but it may be enough an hour to reduce it to dust.
A good government is like good digestion; while it functions, we hardly perceive it.
A well-defended cause is a just cause.
Cities, like dreams, are built of desires and fears, even though the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules absurd, their perspectives deceptive, and everything conceals another thing.
Workers continue to be the poor relation of democracy.
If suddenly all the televisions in the world were to break down, there would be no scales to measure the tsunamis of boredom.
The democracy needs a virtue: trust. Without its construction, there cannot be an authentic democracy.
Everything I know with greater certainty about the morals and obligations of men, I owe to football.
If man fails to reconcile justice and freedom, he fails at everything.
A free press can be good or bad, but without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
Myths have more power than reality. The revolution as a myth is the ultimate revolution.
I have always believed that while the man hopeful in the human condition is a madman, he who despairs of events is a coward.