Boualem Sansal

"To be in prison, alright, but to have a mind free to wander."

"To be free in my mind means you must also be physically free, able to use your own body."

"The dialogue that carries us from knowledge to awareness, and from awareness to commitment."

"The only freedom we have left is to choose whose orders to follow."

"The struggle for freedom requires, first and foremost, a practical commitment."

"How can we fight censorship? How do we delegitimize its arguments? And how do we convince society that the excesses of freedom will always be less serious than those of censorship?"

"The fact is, defenders of freedom almost always end up in the dock, and the censors are justified in their ways. It is a vicious circle."

"The absence of freedom is a pain that eventually drives people mad. It reduces a person to a shadow of themselves."