To create is to resist, to resist is to create.

- Stephane Hessel

My mother once said to me, 'You must promise to be happy; it is the greatest favour you can do to others'. It has guided me throughout my life.

- Stephane Hessel

Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.

- Stephane Hessel

If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand…

- Stephane Hessel

From 1967, all the Israeli governments continued making two big mistakes: occupation and settlement in the territories.

- Stephane Hessel