Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

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

Armies under the control of ... a sovereign State cannot bring freedom to anyone.

We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present.

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

Rome is the Great Beast of atheism and materialism, adoring nothing but itself. Israel is the Great Beast of religion. Neither one nor the other is likable. The Great Beast is always repulsive

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