Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.

Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect

When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.

The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.

In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.

When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders.

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.