"At the dawn of human society there were no individuals, only the tribe, the closed society. The sovereign individual …"

"[C]ommon sense is the most valuable of political virtues."

"[I]t is normal for outsiders to have a better understanding of what is happening inside dictatorial regimes, because …"

"The only way to progress is by stumbling, falling, and getting up, time and again. Error will always be there because…"

"In May 1968 in France there was student unrest at the University of Nanterre, which then spread to the Sorbonne, to t…"

"We live in the civilization of the spectacle and the intellectuals and writers who are the most popular are almost ne…"

"Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life. When we look in fiction for what is missing i…"

"Literature creates a fraternity within human diversity and eclipses the frontiers erected among men and women by igno…"

"[L]iberalism is above all an attitude toward life and society based on tolerance and respect, a love for culture, a d…"

"True progress, which has forced back or overthrown barbarous practices and institutions that were the source of infin…"