Blessed be the night, which conceals and protects things fair and foul with the same indifferent mantle.

Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying that you understand your responsibility, you have a political conscience and you came to vote, but you don't agree with any of the existing parties and this is the only way you have of saying so.

all stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows what happened.

Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king.

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet.

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.