More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.

Intellectual adherence is never owed to anything whatsoever, for it is never in any degree a voluntary thing. Attention alone is voluntary. It alone forms the subject of an obligation.

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.

[We are not] to take one step, even in the direction of what is good, beyond that to which we are irresistibly impelled by God, and this applies to action, word, and thought.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.