Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.
Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods - moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former - but no opinion.
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.
