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

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

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.

The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.

Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages to outweigh all other motives, because the effort it demands of the mind is so very much less. Nothing is so clear and so simple as a row of figures.