“What matters is not to know the world but to change it.”

“The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.”

“They realize at last that change does not mean reform, that change does not mean improvement.”

“To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.”

“A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.”

“In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.”

“...There are too many idiots in this world. And having said it, I have the burden of proving it.”