18 Quotes by Salvador de Madariaga

Von der Pressefreiheit hängt praktisch jede andere Freiheit ab.

Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin.

Circumstances are the seeds of literature.

My knowledge of myself is direct, synthetic, from within outwards; my knowledge of other persons is indirect, analytical, from outside inwards. My knowledge of myself starts at the core; that of others at the crust.

To-day, in more than half of Europe, man is at the mercy of the police; in 1900 even the most conservative and reactionary Prussian Junker would have been unable to imagine, let alone approve, that a citizen could be arrested and kept in prision at the pleasure of the Government.

The criminal excesses of unlimited capitalistic liberty had soon been checked thanks to the unlimited liberty of the press.

Art is the conveyance of spirit by means of matter.

Liberty of thought means liberty to communicate one’s thought.

He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.