At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.

There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.

What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die?

The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.

The only way out [of international dictatorship] is to place international law above governments, which means [...] that there must be a parliament for making it, and that parliament must be constituted by means of worldwide elections in which all nations will take part.

Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.

There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.