Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.

If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected - those, precisely, who need the law's protection most! - and listens to their testimony.

It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.

If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.

Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.