A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

the instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable.

War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role in production.

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.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

Religion as a source of consolation is an obstacle to true faith.

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.