Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.

A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.