I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

To be responsible is to be the uncontested author of an event or thing.

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.

I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.

What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?

Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.

I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight.