Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him.

The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence

One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it.

A Soviet citizen, an official writer, once said to me: "The day when Communism (that is, well-being for everyone) reigns, man's tragedy will begin: his finitude."

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.