"Be not afraid of greatness"

W. Shakespeare. Twelfth night

"(Tacitus) condemned those who opposed the regim, for he saw no alternative to it and they only worsened matters; and condemned too those who supported it, for it was base"

Irving Kristol

"Laws are the children of habit"

Alexis de Tocqueville. Democracy in America

"No vaig demanar a la gent què volien perquè m'haguéssin dit que cavalls més ràpids"

Henry Ford

"I do not think there's a nonmythical, nonideological way of telling a country's story"

Richard Rorty. Achieving our country

"Els demagogs diuen a la gentada què cal pensar, i quan aquesta se'n fa ressò, anuncien agosarats que no fan altra cosa que transmetre el sentiment popular"

Tony Judt. El món no se'n surt

"Gracias a que la vida nos arrastra no tenemos que estar pensando constantemente a dónde vamos"

Gregorio Luri

"És difícil fer que un home entengui una cosa quan el seu salari depèn del fet que no l'entengui"

Upton Sinclair

"Per veure allò que tenim davant del nas, cal una lluita constant"

George Orwell

"Es progresista quien tiene más confianza en la historia que en la moral"

Gregorio Luri

"America highlights what the ignorance of the barbarity of early times has concealed from our gaze"

Alexis de Tocqueville. Democracy in America

"The moral prophets of humanity have always been poets even though they spoke in free verse or by parable"

Richard Rorty. Contingency, irony, and solidarity

"Tota obra presenta tres aspectes: el que l’autor va voler expressar, el que va saber expressar i el que va expressar sense desitjar-ho"

Sergei Dovlatov

"In America religion leads to wisdom; the observance of divine law guides man to freedom"

Alexis de Tocqueville. Democracy in America