In wanting freedom we discover that it depends entirely on the freedom of others, and that the freedom of others depends on ours. . . I am obliged to want others to have freedom at the same time that I want my own freedom. I can take freedom as my goal only if I take that of others as a goal as well.

So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.

Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

I believe, I desire, that social and economic ills may be remedied.