The world's fat is badly divided..

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,..….

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it..

All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people..

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit..

stop spying on the lawful citizenry. Democracy and dossiers go ill together. It is all right for God but all wrong for the State to keep its eye on s….

... people miss a great deal by being sensible..

People often say, with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics.' They might as well say, 'I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my j….

Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival..

Dachau has been my own lifelong point of no return. Between the moment when I walked through the gate of that prison, with its infamous motto, 'Arbei….

I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself….

the private conscience is the last and only protection of the civilized world..

Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens..

Despite official drivel about clean bombs and tactical nuclear weapons, anyone who can read a newspaper or listen to a radio knows that some of us mo….

perhaps these men in the House Caucus Room [Committee on Un-American Activities] are determined to spread silence: to frighten those voices which wil….

All amateur travellers have experienced horror journeys, long or short, sooner or later, one way or another. As a student of disaster, I note that we….

My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom..

Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the land, fa….

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injusti….

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother..

Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness..