An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity.

This thought strengthened in me my belief that all men, without exception, deserve to be pitied, if only because they are alive.

War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.

It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.

You can't think on purpose about somebody or something. Either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all.