It's a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.

Oh yes, right—right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?

There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

The old terms must be invented with new meaning and given new explanations. Liberty, equality, and fraternity are no longer what they were in the days of the late-lamented guillotine. This is what the politicians will not understand; and that is why I hate them. They want only their own special revolutions- external revolutions, political revolutions, etc. But that is only dabbling. What is really needed is a revolution of the human spirit.

Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.

I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.