Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.

If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of acompletely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.

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

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.