Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us.

In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path.

Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.

Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again.

Let us all agree to die a little, or even completely so that African unity may not be a vain word

Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.

I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.

When I was engaged in the struggle for my country, I was very young. My horizons were open.

Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.

I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.

Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there.

We'd stared into Death's eyes and Death blinked first.

Invest in the human soul. Who knows it might be a diamond in the rough.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It's the presence of a reconciling spirit.

Sometimes it may be something I hear in the news that affects me.

The fatal futility of Fact.

I see myself as universal, not as a German, American, French or whatever, because we all live on this planet. We're all living on the earth.

The room went dark and, after a moment, Grace whispered that she loved me, sounding a little sad. I wrapped my arms tightly around her shoulders, sorry that loving me was such a complicated thing.

There was not an industry for child actors. I never really made any money. It was all about fun for me.

If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is - and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.