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" Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison. "

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" 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. "

" The future is made of the same stuff as the present. "

" The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances. "

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

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

" The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. "

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

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

" It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance. "

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

" As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles. "

" Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy. "

" Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat. "

" 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. "

" If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. "

" Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. "

" Humility is attentive patience. "

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

" Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. "

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

" Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. "

" Nothing is less instructive than a machine. "

" 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. "

" For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation. "

" We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him. "