I felt that if a man's proposals met with approval, it should encourage him; if they met with opposition, it should make him fight back; but the real tragedy for him was to lift up his voice among the living and meet with no response neither approval nor opposition just as if he were left helpless in a boundless desert.

When you talk with famous scholars, the best thing is to pretend that occasionally you do not quite understand them. If you understand too little, you will be despised; if you understand too much, you will be disliked; if you just fail occasionally to understand them, you will suit each other very well.

If there are still men who really want to live in this world, they should first dare to speak out, to laugh, to cry, to be angry, to accuse, to fight-that they may at least cleanse this accursed place of its accursed atmosphere!

But if a few awake, you can't say there is no hope of destroying the iron house.

All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which must be rooted out.

It is in the nature of things that some people should be unlucky enough to get their heads chopped off.

You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.