Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.

When things are too clear, they are no longer interesting.

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

We have ourselves to save.

... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.

In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.

Voting for impersonal parties and their programmes is a false substitute for the only true way to elect people's representatives: voting by an actual person for an actual candidate.