The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?

Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.

Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me--

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.