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" 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. "

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

" Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. "

" Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Humility is attentive patience. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" All sins are attempts to fill voids. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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