With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.

Man is a fugitive from nature.

Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak.

The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.