Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified that for years I have not heard anything that sounds human.
Always the same words tell the same lies.
And the fact that men accept it, that the anger of the people has not destroyed these hollow clowns, seems to me a proof that men attach no importance to the way in which they conduct themselves; that they gamble - yes, gamble - with a whole part of their lives and what are called their 'vital interests'. ".
- Albert Camus.