We should certainly know by now that it is one thing to overthrow a dictator or repel an invader and quite another thing really to achieve a revolution. Time and time and time again, the people discover that they have merely betrayed themselves into the hands of yet another Pharaoh, who, since he was necessary to put the broken country together, will not let them go.

The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.

All art is a kind of confession.

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.

I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.