The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment the time is always now.
No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.