Quotation from: The Secret Agent

Written by: Joseph Conrad


He shrugged his shoulders slightly, then added with the same leisurely
assurance: "To break up the superstition and worship of legality should
be our aim. Nothing would please me more than to see Inspector Heat and
his likes take to shooting us down in broad daylight with the approval of
the public. Half our battle would be won then; the disintegration of the
old morality would have set in in its very temple. That is what you
ought to aim at. But you revolutionises will never understand that. You
plan the future, you lose yourselves in reveries of economical systems
derived from what is; whereas what's wanted is a clean sweep and a clear
start for a new conception of life. That sort of future will take care
of itself if you will only make room for it. Therefore I would shovel my
stuff in heaps at the corners of the streets if I had enough for that;
and as I haven't, I do my best by perfecting a really dependable
detonator."

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