Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

It so often happened to me that someone who shared my opinion kept the larger share for himself that I am now forewarned and offer people only ideas.

Love thy neighbor as thyself. Because each of us is his own neighbor.

Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy receptivity to it.