The only way out [of international dictatorship] is to place international law above governments, which means [...] that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.

One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.

It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all, it would keep him from thinking. He must create if he can, first and foremost, especially if his creation does not side-step the problems of his time.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland