To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.

Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.

Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions

When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders.

We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.

The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps.