"The law is necessarily more lax than morality"

Leo Strauss. What is political philosophy?

". . . minimum quod potest haberi de cognitione rerum altissimarum, desiderabilius est quam certissima cognitio quae habetur de minimis rebus . . . ."

". . . the least knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of the lowest things . . . .

Sant Tomàs d'Aquino. Summa Theologica I, q. 1, art. 5

"By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little"

Edmund Burke. Reflections on the Revolution in France

"To make a revolution is a measure that, prima fronte, requires an apology"

Edmund Burke. Reflections on the Revolution in France

"Tyranny is always better organized than freedom"

Charles Péguy

"The facts of life are conservative"

Margaret Tatcher

"In politics, idealisme is frequently no more than an excuse for not recognizing unpleasant realities"

Hannah Arendt. Thoughts on politics and revolution

"La democracia es dos lobos y una oveja votando sobre qué se va a comer. La Libertad es la oveja, armada, impugnando el resultado."

Benjamin Franklin

"The basic law of politics is that unanticipated consequences are always more important than the anticipated consequences of your actions"

Irving Kristol. The neoconservative persuasion

"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

"No hay nadie más insensible que la gente sentimental"

Milan Kundera

"En dos ocasiones no debería jugar el hombre; cuando no tiene dinero y cuando lo tiene"

Mark Twain