The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

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.

What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.

There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment.

Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style.