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.

No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.

Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.

It takes a fool to rush off to war!

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers . . . we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.

I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there.