He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.

Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

There are two Gods, there is the God that people generally believe in - a God who has to serve them. This God does not exist. But the God whom people forget - the God whom we all have to serve - exists, and is the prime cause of our existence and of all that we perceive.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure.

By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.