What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this vicious cycle. What is called national prestige consists in behaving always in such a way as to demoralize other nations by giving them the impression that, if it comes to war, one would certainly defeat them. What is called national security is an imaginary state of affairs in which one would retain the capacity to make war while depriving all other countries of it.

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

Electra weeping for the dead Orestes. If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.

It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

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.