On the Russian revolutionaries:To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having children, to lose your fortune, and to give up your civil honor, all for revolutionary conviction, makes for a league of more practical proof than any religious order.

The space of play and the space of thought are the two theaters of freedom.

He who suffers wins in politics. The martyr does not obtain the victory personally, but his group, his successors, win in the long run.

To a mankind that recognizes the equality of man everywhere, every war becomes a civil war.

It is useless to teach those who do not expect to be transformed

Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his holidays, to establish a new and better time schedule for life, has been the great endeavour of man ever since the days of Noah.

Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.