I dream of a combination of men who shall make no concessions, who shall show no consideration, and who shall be willing to be called "destroyers" they apply the standard of their criticism to everything and sacrifice themselves to truth. The bad and the false shall be brought to light We will not build prematurely: we do not know, indeed, whether we shall ever be able to build, or if it would not be better not to build at all. There are lazy pessimists and resigned ones in this world-and it is to their number that we refuse to belong