Excesses are essentially gestures. It is easy to be extremely cruel, magnanimous, humble or self-sacrificing when we see ourselves as actors in a performance.

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a strong feeling of guilt - are likely to be the most fervent in imposing their faith on others.

There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. It not infrequently happens that those who hunger for hope give their allegiance to him who offers them a grievance.

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.