Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

Freedom is a system based on courage.

I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none.