Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

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

He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.

One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice.

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.