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

Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.