A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.

Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why and by whom it is being inflicted on him. But the cry itself is infallible.

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

If someone does me injury I must desire that this injury shall not degrade me. I must desire this out of love for him who inflicts it, in order that he may not really have done evil.

The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.

What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.