We are so afraid of the idea of having to die... that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn.

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

One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.

Death is the inventor of God.

Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.

But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion.