If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?

I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle.

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.

We have been fortunate enough to live at a time when virtue, though it does not triumph, is nonetheless not always tormented by attack dogs. Beaten down, sickly, virtue has now been allowed to enter in all its tatters and sit in the corner, as long as it doesn't raise its voice.

Every human act can be disguised with a coating of gilt.

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.

The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.