You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it’s gained you take no pleasure in it.
I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he’s fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose...
The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
America is God equals America equals Business equals America equals God.
Love isn’t putting chain on someone who wants to struggle and is ready to die for it, love is letting him die in the way he’s chosen.
War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton’s mediation.
True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and intelligence.
You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.
America’s a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.
Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.
America’s vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It’s the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.
I’ve found what I was looking for, Child: what people call love between a man and a woman is a season. And if, at its flowering, this season is a feast of greenery, at its waning, it’s only a heap of rotting leaves.
To be good or bad doesn’t count: life out in this world doesn’t depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You’ll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather.
Life is such an effort, Child. It’s a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price.
No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it’s always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.
Listening to someone talk isn’t at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.
How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It’s like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!
I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.