We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its hopes upon Heaven, it has everything to hope for from this earth.

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.

There are thoughts we must not think

One does not set fire to a world which is already lost

To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.