Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion.

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.

Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.

Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.

Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone.

Face a challenge and find joy in the capacity to meet it.