We didn't love freedom enough.

We have ourselves to save.

What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people?

Surrender one hair, and you'll end up beardless.

Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.

... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.

... that maxim of Descartes: "Question everything!" Question everything!