A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation.

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted...If one were to present the sportsman with the death of the animal as a gift he would refuse it. What he is after is having to win it, to conquer the surly brute through his own effort and skill with all the extras that this carries with it: the immersion in the countryside, the healthfulness of the exercise, the distraction from his job.