Still, everybody wants to eat.

... scientists have made no clear effort to become an important, independently active force of mankind. Whole congresses at a time, they back away from the suffering of others; it is more comfortable to stay within the bounds of science.

People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.

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

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?

If you ever get twenty-five years for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands permanently behind your back, submitting to searches morning and evening, working until you are utterly exhausted, dragged into the cooler whenever someone denounces you, trodden deeper and deeper into the ground-from the hole you're in, the fine words of the great humanists will sound like the chatter of the well-fed and free.