Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.

The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

Fate is not in man but around him

In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.