"Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black."

"I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all."

"The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide."

"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others."

"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."

"War is a defeat for humanity."

"History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful."

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."