I believe in revelation, but not in revelation which each religion claims to possess, but in the living revelation which surrounds us on every side - mighty, eternal, unceasing, incorruptible, clear, distinct, universal as is the being from whom it proceeds, in that revelation which speaks to us and penetrates us from the moment we are born until we die.

When there is in nature no fixed condition, how much less must there be in the life of a people, beings endowed with mobility and movement!

Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience.

It is not the criminals who arouse the hatred of others, but the men who are honest.

Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows – it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.

I believe in revelation, but not in revelation which each religion claims to possess, but in the living revelation which surrounds us on every side - mighty, eternal, unceasing, incorruptible, clear, distinct, universal as is the being from whom it proceeds, in that revelation which speaks to us and penetrates us from the moment we are born until we die.

There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.