Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people forbade themselves any display of reason or compassion. A city or a land was devoted to destruction and it was believed an insult to God if one did not observe the abominable oath.

The ignorance of French society gives one a rough sense of the infinite.

The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.

Muslims are the first victims of Islam. Many times I have observed in my travels in the Orient that fanaticism comes from a small number of dangerous men who maintain the others in the practice of religion by terror. To liberate the Muslim from his religion is the best service one can render him.

Muslims are the first victims of Islam. To liberate a Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him!