Quote by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)

• The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretense but an idea.

• I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse are creatures of despair.

• Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

• All a man can betray is his conscience.

• All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

• The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.