I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.

We've all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we'll be sure to have some tomorrow.

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.

...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing.

From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.