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

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" In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I can, therefore I am. "

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

" Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. "

" 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. "

" Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. "

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

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

" 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. "

" All sins are attempts to fill voids. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul. "

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