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" More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic. "

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" When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door. "

" I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her. "

" The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit. "

" Every perfect life is a parable invented by God. "

" An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God. "

" Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. "

" If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe. "

" A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. "

" Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure. "

" There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice. "

" We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise. "

" The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry. "

" Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses. "

" In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention. "

" It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down. "

" Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link. "

" The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at. "

" To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves. "

" A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless. "

" I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded. "

" One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights. "

" What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. "

" Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers. "

" A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines. "

" All sins are attempts to fill voids. "

" A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war. "

" Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings. "

" To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. "

" Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand. "