A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at al...l.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injus...tice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humiliation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for- the-making-of-rich-men, without bursting the boiler.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not ye...t finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, ...reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, ...He even provided a first instalment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity; or rather, at the very source of its life! To confound this lust in man with t...hat desire which unites the sexes is like confusing a tumor with the very organ which it devours, a tumor whose very deformity horribly reproduces the shape.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They can never have known old monks, wise, shrewd, unerring in judgment, and yet aglow with passionate insight, so very tender in ...their humanity. What miracle enables these semi-lunatics, these prisoners of their own dreams, these sleepwalkers, apparently to enter more deeply each day into the pain of others? An odd sort of dream, an unusual opiate which, far from turning him back into himself and isolating him from his fellows, unites the individual with mankind in the spirit of universal charity!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »