Quotes from Leon Blum

The cause of Freedom and the cause of Peace are bound together.

Life does not give itself to one who tries to keep all its advantages at once. I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

I have often though morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.

My belief is rooted in hope.

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.

Life does not give itself to one who tries to keep all its advantages at once. I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

To a world situation that appears entirely novel to you, there ought to correspond an entirely new conception of socialism.

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Let all of us, though we are separated, remain socialists. Despite everything, let us remain brothers, brothers separated by a quarrel which is cruel but which is, nonetheless, a family quarrel, and whom a common hearth may some day reunite.

No government can remain stable in an unstable society and an unstable World.

There is no other limit to the size of the Socialist party than the number of workers and wage-earners.

It is really quite extraordinary that some people should speak to us of tyranny in the present Party: tyranny of bosses, tyranny of elected parliamentary deputies. I don't know what means the deputies employ today to exercise their tyranny, but at least you know who they are, and you can take their means away from them. From where will you take them tomorrow? From anonymities, from unknown persons, from masks.

I refuse to tell myself that all the work of the past has been worthless, and that everything remains to be done. No, much has been done, and you have no right to deny it to yourselves and to disavow those efforts today.

There is everywhere the life of the people, everywhere liberty, everywhere a free atmosphere, everywhere popular supervision, everywhere responsibility. Some people speak of bosses. There were no bosses at all in the Socialist party. Supervision was exercised or can be exercised over those so-called bosses. It used to depend--and it still depends--on the members to invoke the relevant statutory regulations. A strong supervisory control is organized by them and depends only on their initiative.

A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.