When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the language of any other people, which certainly does not mean what it says but betrays a nagging suspicion that something has been misplaced. I think now that if I had any intimation that the self I was going to find would turn out to be only the same self from which I had spent so much time in flight, I would have stayed at home.

The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their weapon against life, life is all that they have.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society.

History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.