“Anyone who’d volunteer for alien domination doesn’t really deserve to have his or her freedom.”

“He’s not really a religious man, but he knows which side his bread’s buttered on. The churches pay his salary, so he doesn’t want anyone rocking the boat with unorthodox rumours.”

“I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything he really deserves.”

“He who doesn’t know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life are alien to anyone who is unable to enjoy others’ successes, and such a person should never be entrusted with public affairs.”

“When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust.”

“I had never been able to truly hate anyone who’d suffered, no matter what evils they’d done in the aftermath.”

“She was an alien, really - a sort of eating, pooping, tantrum machine - and he didn't understand anything about her species.”

“[Women in Islamic countries] are exposed to male domination as a rule rather than as an exception… If anyone protests… as I have done, you are sure to be branded as a witch… What I demand is freedom for women from male domination and a uniform code… It that can be construed as blasphemy, I cannot help it.”

“Alcohol doesn’t console, it doesn’t fill up anyone’s psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn’t comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.”

“It is when the majorities are denied their right to participate in history as Subjects that they become dominated and alienated.”