Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.

All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance from what is made of them in interpretation… for interpretations depend very much on who the interpreter is, who he or she is addressing, what his or her purpose is, at what historical moment the interpretation takes place.

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

The era of humanism is over. Advanced people experience the era of post-humanism. Now human being is not under the values, he is above them. Human being wills to sacrifice values for his own sake.

If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.

When you become a public figure, you still think, 'That's really not me; there's more to me than that.'