Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.

The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought, but that is an illusion: in reality it is a brute revolt against a brutal violence, an effort to free our own ear from bondage and to occupy the enemy's ear by force. Because all of man's life among his kind is nothing other than a battle to seize the ear of others.

When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can't go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they're covered with soil or stones?

Attaching love to sex is one of the most bizarre ideas the Creator ever had.

Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.