To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.

Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

When an individual fear or apathy would cause us to pass by the unfortunate, then life is of no account.

I do not believe that we can stop perfecting new ways of dying until we have found new ways of living. Every new life-way ought to prevent a new death-way.

In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in.

To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.