Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.

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

Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives.

Man alone can enslave man.

The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever.

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.