Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.

In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.

Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.

But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself.

No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.