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.

To grow up requires a whole life but to become old one night is enough.

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.

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

A wrong war brings wrong; so does a right war.

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.