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

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" A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams. "

" 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. "

" It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures. "

" To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny. "

" We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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