"I hate the indifferent. I believe that living means taking sides. Those who really live cannot help being a citizen and a partisan. Indifference and apathy are parasitism, perversion, not life. That i…"

"If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall."

"All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals."

"We need to free ourselves from the habit of seeing culture as encyclopedia knowledge, and men as mere receptacles to be stuffed full of empirical data and a mass of unconnected raw facts, which have t…"

"I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die."