The innocent is the person who explains nothing
None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.
To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living.
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.