Pedro Rocha

“When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image carried with it . . . when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.”
― Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

“Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.”
― George Orwell

“A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.”
― Joseph de Maistre, Considerations on France

“Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions