The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

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

The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.

A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.

False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones.

Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.

In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose itself on reality ... we can no longer hope to save everything, but ... we can at least try to save lives, so that some kind of future, if perhaps not the ideal one, will remain possible.