Tyranny is just what one can develop a taste for, since it so happens that man prefers to wallow in fear rather than to face the anguish of being himself.

To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.

To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.

Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.