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

Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")

... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is easy for me to kill, that is because it is difficult for me to die.

Don't let them tell us stories.

All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences. That may sound simple to the point of childishness; I can't judge if it's simple, but I know it's true.

Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.

One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.