Man cannot live by profit alone.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.

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 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.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.