Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes. "

Related Quotes:

" Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. "

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

" 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. "

" Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. "

" 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. "

" 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 mind enclosed in language is in prison. "

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

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

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

" Humility is attentive patience. "

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

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

" When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder. "

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

" 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 contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. "

" Nothing is less instructive than a machine. "

" I can, therefore I am. "

" There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too. "