"I'm dead, Anna. No, no, I'm not dead. No, that's wrong. Too melodramatic. I'm not dead at all. But I live without self-respect. I know it sounds silly - pretentious - since almost all people are forced to live without self-worth. Humiliated to the core, stifled and spat upon. They just live. They know nothing more. They know no alternative. Even if they did, they would never reach for it. You understand? Can you be sick from humiliation? Is it a disease we're all infected by and we have to live with? We talk so much about freedom, Anna. Isn't freedom a terrible poison for the humiliated... or is the word "freedom" only a drug the humiliated use in order to endure. I can't live with this. I've given up. Sometimes it's almost unbearable. The days drag by. I feel like I'm choking on the food I swallow, the crap I get rid of, the words I say. The light - the daylight which comes every morning and yells at me to get up. Or the sleep which always brings dreams, chasing me back and forth. Or just the darkness rattling with ghosts and memories. Has it occurred to you, Anna, that the worse off people are, the less they complain? Eventually they're silent... even though they're living creatures with nerves, eyes and hands. Massive armies of both victims and executioners. The light which rises and sinks heavily. The cold approaches. Darkness. The heat. The smell. And everyone is silent. We can never leave this place. I don't believe in escape. It's too late. Everything's too late."

"Human beings are human beings whether they speak or not."

"Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness: a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say 'no.' But saying 'yes' begins things. Saying 'yes' is how things grow."

"I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light."

"Estamos absolutamente emocionados e extasiados por nossos colegas terem reconhecido a urgência deste filme, e honrados por estarmos na companhia de documentários tão importantes. Numa época em que a extrema direita está se espalhando como uma epidemia, esperamos que esse filme possa nos ajudar a entender como é crucial proteger nossas democracias"

"It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."

"Yet I also suspected that what I was seeing was but a part of the truth and perhaps not even the most important part; beneath these faces, these clothes, accents, rudenesses, was power and sorrow, both unadmitted, unrealized, the power of inventors, the sorrow of the disconnected."

"I woke up with a feeling I just could not take
I woke up with a feeling I just could not take
I woke up with a feeling I just could not take
I woke up with a (not take)"

(...)
Swallowed up
Swallowed up by the city
By the city, by the city
Humans the size of rats
Opportunity cracks, opportunity stutters
It only takes a minute
And it takes it, and it takes it
And it takes it, and it takes it"

"A fog of uncertainty soon settles over every account, “which makes it harder and harder to discover what is actually happening,” and therefore “makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs."

"Como quem, vindo de países distantes fora de si,
chega finalmente aonde sempre esteve
e encontra tudo no seu lugar,
o passado no passado, o presente no presente,
assim chega o viajante à tardia idade
em que se confundem ele e o caminho."

“In a time of destruction, create something.”

"Mas nessa conversa imaginária com os meus netos imaginários não perderei muito tempo com a “caça às bruxas” das primeiras décadas do século 21. Também falarei do filme —uma comédia romântica, aparentemente ligeira, com atores que, depois da rodagem, também se afastaram de Woody Allen com náusea. Exatamente como os seus antepassados se afastavam dos comunistas, reais ou imaginários."

"The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin'
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'"

“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”

"Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right."

"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything."

"Existem nas recordações de todo o homem coisas que ele só revela aos seus amigos. Há outras que não revela mesmo aos amigos, mas apenas a si próprio, e assim mesmo em segredo. Mas também há, finalmente, coisas que o homem tem medo de desvendar até a si próprio, e, em cada homem honesto, acumula-se um número bastante considerável de coisas no gênero." 

"This means, in the face of mounting pressure, news organizations must hold fast to the values of great journalism — fairness, accuracy, independence — while opening ourselves so the public can better understand our work and its role in society. We need to keep chasing the stories that matter, regardless of whether they’re trending on Twitter. We cannot allow ourselves to be baited or applauded into becoming anyone’s opposition or cheerleader. Our loyalty must be to facts, not to any party or any leader, and we must continue to follow the truth wherever it leads, without fear or favor.

But the responsibility to stand up for the free press extends beyond news organizations. Business, nonprofit and academic communities, all of which rely on the free and reliable flow of news and information, have a responsibility to push back on this campaign, too. That is particularly true of tech giants like Facebook, Twitter, Google and Apple. Their track record of standing up to governments abroad is spotty at best; they’ve too often turned a blind eye to disinformation and, at times, permitted the suppression of real journalism."

 "Everything will be forgotten and nothing will be redressed."

"Illiteracy does not impede the practice of democracy, anti-intellectualism does."