It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humilation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for-the-making-of-rich-men, without bursting the boiler.