I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline, the sensations, but chiefly the opportunity to think clearly, to try to understand things."

Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.

"Socialism is . . . not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems."

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.