Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle.

Gentlemen, four-fifths of the earth's surface is covered by seas; that is unquestionably too much; the world's surface, the map of oceans and dry land, must be corrected. We shall give the world the workforce of the sea, gentlemen. This will no longer be the style of Captain van Toch; we shall replace the adventure story of pearls by the hymnic paean of labour.

Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.

Art must not serve might.

There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.

Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust another cat because she knows better than we do.

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.