André Malraux

“The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the democratic and the totalitarian.”

“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”

“What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets.”

“Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the course of centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved.”

“There is no such thing as a grown-up.”

“The human mind has invented a new form of struggle, the war of ideologies.”

“To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.”

“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.”

“There can be no patriotism without liberty.”

“Heritage is not transmitted, it is conquered.”

“If a man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?”

“In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and conquers it.”

“A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.”

“The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.”

“Art is a revolt against fate.”

“The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw from our own selves images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.”