How can something so. . . huge happen so fast?
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.
The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.
On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.
In every science, after having analysed the ideas, expressing the more complicated by means of the more simple, one finds a certain number that cannot be reduced among them, and that one can define no further. These are the primitive ideas of the science; it is necessary to acquire them through experience, or through induction; it is impossible to explain them by deduction.
If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.
Cynics and critics wake us up. Kindness often covers up the truth and allows us to sleep on in our ignorance.
Win and you are the superior being in all the universe; lose, and may the fleas of a million rodents, infect your every orifice.