Joseph Conrad

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of illusions.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Należy przypuszczać, że tubylcy istnieją właśnie po to, aby mogli ich tępić ludzie dobrej woli, mający zamiar robić karierę.

Ostatecznie wrzask każdego rodzaju to rzecz krótkotrwała. Pozostaje nieubłagane milczenie faktów.

It is respectable to have no illusions - and safe - and profitable - and dull.

Wszystko, co człowiek może zdradzić, to własne sumienie.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

Słowa, jak powszechnie wiadomo, są wielkimi wrogami rzeczywistości.

Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality.

The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.

Cierpienie daje prędką dojrzałość.

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.

Daj mi właściwe słowo i odpowiedni akcent, a poruszę świat.

Kiedyś statki były drewniane, a ludzie ze stali. Dzisiaj jest jakby inaczej.