According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame.

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

The true dividing line between people is whether they are capable of being in love with their destiny.

What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.