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

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

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them

A strong man never loses his head in defeat or despondency.

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

The solemn pledge to abstain from telling the truth was called socialist realism.

During my time in the camps, I had got to know the enemies of the human race quite well: they respect the big fist and nothing else; the harder you slug them, the safer you will be.