There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself. – Andre Breton
In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again. – Andre Breton
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Natures chief masterpiece is writing well. – Andre Breton
To see, to hear, means nothing. To recognize (or not to recognize) means everything. Between what I do recognize and what I do not recognize there stands myself. And what I do not recognize I shall continue not to recognize. – Andre Breton
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. – Edmund Burke