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

Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why and by whom it is being inflicted on him. But the cry itself is infallible.

Uprooting is by far the most dangerous of the ills of human society, for it perpetuates itself.

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.

The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.