Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is rooted himself doesn't uproot others.

We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present.

He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as he loves himself those whom chance separated from him by an abyss. The variety of constraints pressing upon man give rise to the illusion of several distinct species that cannot communicate. Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice.

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

If you say to someone who has ears to hear: "What you are doing to me is not just," you may touch and awaken at its source the spirit of attention and love. But it is not the same with words like, "I have the right..." or "you have no right to..." They evoke a latent war and awaken the spirit of contention.

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

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