Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.

And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.

The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that.

Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.