If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.

Everything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions.

Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.

but it is also true, if this brings her any consolation, that if, before every action, we were to begin weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probably, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt.

Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.