It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
Georges BernanosGod! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?
Georges BernanosLittle things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
Georges BernanosJustice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humilation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for-the-making-of-rich-men, without bursting the boiler.
Georges Bernanos