He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

Freedom is a system based on courage.

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

The faith that I love the best, says God, is hope.

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.

I’ll not let the pair of you charge boldly into wolves’ teeth without me alongside

Theory of public goods. Theory that if I take you euro (as an elected state government) and give fifty cents back... you will be happier and I will be satisfied.

Capitalism is against the things that we say we believe in - democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It's not about any of those things now. It's about protecting the wealthy and legalizing greed.

Sometimes, I, anyway, get tired of playing defence, and like to play offence.

Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind.

Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.

The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to be famous or the intent to be great doesn't matter in the end. Just what comes out.

If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.

Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.

We should not accept moral nihilism unless we find strong arguments to do so.