If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.

The one who doesn't pull his weight is not asked to pull, while the one who does, pulls for two.

Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom of print," it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory.

No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.

To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.

A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian.