So much torture, bloodshed, deceit. You cannot make your young people practice torture twenty-four hours a day and not expect to pay a price for it.

I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'.

One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

Therefore, in the nature of this will for freedom, which freedom itself implies, I may pass judgement on those who seek to hide from themselves the complete arbitrariness and the complete freedom of their existence.