What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.

Every country has the government it deserves.

What a miserable world!--trouble if we love, and trouble if we do not love.

The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint, without respite until the consummation of the world, the extinction of evil, the death of death.

Reason speaks in words alone, but love has a song.

Without doubt, God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. God directs angels, men, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature: and man having been created free, he is led freely.

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.