When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. ... there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.

A punishment that penalizes without forestalling is indeed called revenge.

N'attendez pas le Jugement dernier. Il a lieu tous les jours.

One can insult an honest man or an honest woman, but to tell a thief that he is a thief is merely la constation d'un fait [The establishing of a fact.]

Finally, she broke her silence and spelled it out to Dr. Burkley. Kneeling, John Kennedy's personal physician indicated her ghastly skirt with a trembling hand…

The worst of our institutions, in its worst aspect, cannot keep down energy, truthfulness, and earnest struggle for the right.