The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.

In short, whoever does violence to truth or its expression eventually mutilates justice, even though he thinks he is serving it. From this point of view, we shall deny to the very end that a press is true because it is revolutionary; it will be revolutionary only if it is true, and never otherwise.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.