All sins are attempts to fill voids.

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.

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

The apprehension of necessity is an imitation of creation.

The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.