We can't do without dominating others or being served.... The essential thing, in sum, is being able to get angry without the other person being able to answer back.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

He was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way.

There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart.

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.