It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

Freedom! To fill people's mailboxes, eyes, ears and brains with commercial rubbish against their will, television programs that are impossible to watch with a sense of coherence. Freedom! To force information on people, taking no account of their right not to accept it or their right of peace of mind. Freedom! To spit in the eyes and souls of passersby with advertisements.

The most intense patriotism always flourishes in the rear.

Human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions.

I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there.

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.