The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.

He who must travel happily must travel light.

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.