Hope Is Not A Feeling Of Certainty

There Can Be No Doubt That Distrust Of Words Is Less Harmful Than Unwarranted Trust In Them. Besides, To Distrust Words, And Indict Them For The Horrors That Might Slumber Unobtrusively Within Them - Isn’t This, After All, The True Vocation Of The Intellectual?

What's Certain Is That A Totalitarian Enclave Like Cuba's Can't Continue To Exist, So Change Will Definitely Come There, Eventually.

There's A Dilemma Over How To Balance Concrete Economic Interests With Critical Opinions On The State Of Human Rights. It's The Human Rights That Suffer, And That's A Great Price To Pay.

Twenty Or Thirty Years Ago, In The Army, We Had A Lot Of Obscure Adventures, And Years Later We Tell Them At Parties, And Suddenly We Realize That Those Two Very Difficult Years Of Our Lives Have Become Lumped Together Into A Few Episodes That Have Lodged In Our Memory In A Standardized Form, And Are Always Told In A Standardized Way, In The Same Words. But In Fact That Lump Of Memories Has Nothing Whatsoever To Do With Our Experience Of Those Two Years In The Army And What It Has Made Of Us.

It's Not True That You Should First Think Up An Idea For A Better World And Only Then "put It Into Practice," But, Rather, Through The Fact Of Your Existence In The World, You Create The Idea Or Manifest It - Create It, As It Were, From The "material Of The World," Articulate It In The "language Of The World."