“I could only choose between being an outcast and being dishonest.”

“Martyrs must choose between being forgotten, mocked, or made use of. As for being understood—never!”

“I felt amazed at the choosing one had to do, over and over a million times daily--choosing love, then choosing it again… how loving and being in love could be so different.”

“A man who chooses between drinking a glass of milk and a glass of a solution of potassium cyanide does not choose between two beverages; he chooses between life and death. A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.”

“Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.”

“The soul is the only difference between human beings and the dead.”

“There is no order between created being and non-being, but there is between created and uncreated being.”

“One must be very naïve or dishonest to imagine that men choose their beliefs independently of their situation.”

“There is a subtle difference between being a prisoner and being a slave. I don't mistake either for being free.”

“Between being ‘right’ and being kind, I know which way I vote.”