Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.

It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it. Nothing had changed except your own attitude: the predestined thing happened in any case.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

Every life viewed from the inside is a series of defeats.