The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood motionless, from one to eight in the morning, for the sake of having an egg, would have found it very difficult to do in order to save a human life.

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

The demonstrable correlation of opposites is an image of the transcendental correlation of contradictories.

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.