Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal.

If we love our fellow humans, we cannot limit our insight and our love only to others as individuals...We have to be political people, I would even say passionately involved political people, each of us in the way that best suits our own temperaments, our working lives, and our own capabilities.

To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge.

We must make a decision of values.

To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise.

Once they are through the process of education, most people lose the capacity of wondering, of being surprised. They feel they ought to know everything, and hence that it is a sign of ignorance to be surprised or puzzled by anything.

It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no lack of acquaintance between the two warring sides.