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

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.

The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

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

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

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