To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.

No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.

In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence.

Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.

The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but freedom to come and go--never kinder and gayer with one woman than when I had just left another's bed, as if I extended to all others the debt I had just contracted toward one of them.

The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the future belongs to them. The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.