In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen.

Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance.

You have to stop living in order to write.

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.

By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

In November you begin to know how long the winter will be.