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.

All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.

The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.

On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.

More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born.