“If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.”

“If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it. (as quoted by Tony Judt)”

“A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.”

“man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified… Religion or crime, every human endeavor in fact, finally obeys this unreasonable desire and claims to give life a form it does not have.”

“At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.”

“No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing. ”

“Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.”