if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.

... we have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their bundance. Whatever we do, we are supposed to do for the sake of "making a living;" such is the verdict of society, and the number of people, especially in the professions who might challenge it, has decreased rapidly. The only exception society is willing to grant is to the artist, who, strictly speaking, is the only "worker" left in a laboring society.

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power.

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.

For no matter what learned scientists may say, race is, politically speaking, not the beginning of humanity but its end, not the origin of peoples but their decay, not the natural birth of man but his unnatural death.