We do not trust educated people and rarely, alas, produce them, for we do not trust the independence of mind which alone makes a genuine education possible.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.

It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.

The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.