You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?

The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.

The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.

Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world.

In Europe, war is a disease which has been in the family for generations: no one is surprised when it makes another leap. Even the patient only attends to it with part of his mind.

Truth is the only good and the purest pity. ... Men lie for profit or for pity. All lies turn to poison, but a lie that is told for pity or shame breeds such a host of ills that no power on earth can compass their redemption.