Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one single deed from which we could never recover; we would remain the victims of its consequences forever.

The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

Even though we have lost yardsticks by which to measure, and rules under which to subsume the particular, a being whose essence is a beginning may have enough of origin within himself to understand without preconceived categories and to judge without the set of customary rules which is morality.