The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.

After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

there is clearly a kind of anger that is healthy. It is the concentration of one's whole being in the determination: this must change.

We cannot live without our lives

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.

People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.