…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.

God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.