What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.
Georges BernanosCivilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
Georges BernanosIt is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
Georges BernanosHave you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of their envy, without understanding that what they ask of you is not so much your worldly goods, as something very hard to define, which they themselves can put no name to; yet at times it consoles their loneliness; a dream of splendor, of magnificence, a tawdry dream, a poor man's dream -and yet God blesses it!
Georges Bernanos