It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.

War is the supreme form of prestige.

You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.