“Generals, on the average, are far less bellicose than journalists or patriotic housewives: They know the horrors of a war and they dislike any break in the routine”

“Imagine if one should drag an innocent passer-by from the street to the operating room of a nearby hospital and force him at gunpoint to perform a delicate operation. The man would burst into tears...”

“The shock which the Nazi horrors produced was so great, because they came after two hundred years of Roussellian propaganda about the goodness of human nature and also because the Germans were lite...”

“Modifying Clausewitz aphorismwar is the continuation of diplomacy by other meansone could say that in ideologically divided countries civil war is but the continuation of parliamentarism with other...”

“The true rightist is not a man who wants to go back to this or that institution for the sake of a return; he wants first to find out what is eternally true, eternally valid, and then either to rest...”

“For the genuine materialist there is no fundamental, but only a gradual, an evolutionary difference, between man and a pest, a noxious insect”

“I don't know how to stop the atrocities. I don't know how to make people care. But looking into my sister's eyes, we seem to have carved out something between us that none of the madness can touch....”

“We donot qualify as humans going by our acts, but we surely prove through our vulnerability and sufferings!”

“People will come to test and divide us, but, as long as we keep compassion in our hearts for others, they won't win.”

“The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable.... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into the human economy. It was thus possible for tr...”

“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”

“Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.”