With the eyes of the mind one can see more than with the eyes of the body.
There’s nothing like death for bringing out the meanness of human nature.
Speech is the deadliest of revealers.
Memory is a wonderful gift. With it the past is never the past.
Man is an unoriginal animal.
Man is always in danger – from traffic, from germs, from a hundred-and-one things. As well be killed one way as another. The moment you begin being careful of yourself – adopting as your motto ‘Safety First’ – you might as well be dead.
In war you do not exercise the right of private judgement. That is what is so dangerous. Once a man is imbued with the idea that he knows who ought to be allowed to live and who ought not – then he is halfway to becoming the most dangerous killer there is – the arrogant criminal who kills not for profit – but for an idea. He has usurped the functions of le bon Dieu.
