We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?

The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn't seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions. He even prides himself on his political ignorance, sticks out his chest and says he hates politics. He doesn't know, the imbecile, that from his political non-participation comes the prostitute, the abandoned child, the robber and, worst of all, corrupt officials, the lackeys of exploitative multinational corporations.

When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.