Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
– Andre Malraux
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
– Andre Malraux
Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.
– Andre Malraux
There has been talk of the risks this painting took by leaving the Louvre. But the risks taken by the boys who landed one day in Normandy-to say nothing of those who had preceded them 25 years before-were much more certain.
– Andre Malraux
To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.
– Andre Malraux
Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
– Andre Malraux
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
– Andre Malraux
The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.
– Andre Malraux
The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
– Andre Malraux
War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
– Andre Malraux
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
– Andre Malraux
Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.