15 Quotes by B. Traven

The treasure which you think not worth taking trouble and pains to find, this alone is the real treasure you are longing for all your life. The glittering treasure you are hunting for day and night lies buried on the other side of that hill yonder.

If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies.

The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today.

The prison was very important – as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of a civilized state.

If you wish to survive, you have to win the battle.

The air bit into your lungs because it was filled with poisonous gas escaping from the refineries. That sting in the air which made breathing so hard and unpleasant and choked your throat constantly meant that people were making money- much money.