Considering how bad men are, it is wonderful how well they behave.

- Salvador De Madariaga

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

- Salvador De Madariaga

Art is the conveyance of spirit by means of matter.

- Salvador De Madariaga

Love has its roots in sex, but its foliage and flowers are in the pure light of spirit.

- Salvador De Madariaga

No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

- Salvador De Madariaga

Action is the music of our life. Like music, it starts from a pause of leisure, a silence of activity which our initiative attacks; then it develops …

- Salvador De Madariaga

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

- Salvador De Madariaga

A general must be shot or befriended - but never hurt.

- Salvador De Madariaga

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…

- Salvador De Madariaga