Leon Blum's Quotes

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.

Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul.

After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.

Fashion is a social agreement. the result of a consensus of a large group of people.

A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force.

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.

What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions.