Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.

No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old.

The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else.

Sometimes I'm haunted by the thought that we have only one life and that we live it provisionally, waiting in vain for the day when real life will begin. And so life passes by.

Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.

Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.