One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

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.

The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode in foreign politics when it is especially an act of internal politics and the most atrocious act of all . . . Since the directing apparatus has no other way of fighting the enemy than by sending its own soldiers, under compulsion, to their death-the war of one state against another state resolves itself into a war of the state and the military apparatus against its own people.

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

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this supreme tearing apart, this incomparable agony, this marvel of love, is the crucifixion. Nothing can be further from God than that which has been made accursed.