It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an old man who is 'extraordinary for his age'; the extraordinariness lies in their behaving like human beings when they are either not yet or no longer men.

Men create their own gods and thus have some slight understanding that they are self-fabricated. Women are much more susceptible, because they are completely oppressed by men; they take men at their word and believe in the gods that men have made up. The situation of women, their culture, makes them kneel more often before the gods that have been created by men than men themselves do, who know what they've done. To this extent, women will be more fanatical, whether it is for fascism or for totalitarianism.

You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

Anyway I know only too well that all life is nothing but a brief reprieve from death.

The human species is forever in a state of change, forever becoming.

In truth we need to change the society itself, men as well as women, to change everything.