No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.

Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.

Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts on the apparel of innocence, through a curious reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence that is called on to justify itself. The purpose of this essay is to accept and study that strange challenge.

The main thing is that everything become simple, easy enough for a child to understand.