Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war.

We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

I was at the front for thirteen months, and by the end of that time the sharpest perceptions had become dulled, the greatest words mean.

In a quiet Franciscan monastery kind and silent monks looked after me. After many weeks I was discharged. Unfit for further service.

The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized.

The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.

Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.

I saw the dead without really seeing them.

As a rule, people are afraid of truth. Each truth we discover in nature or social life, destroys the crutches on which we need to lean.

If it is logical, it’s not love.

There were lies, and there were lies. Was a secret a lie? If one wanted to protect another?

Possible is more a matter of attitude, A matter of decision, to choose Among the impossible possibilities, When one sound opportunity Becomes a possible solution.

You can easily tell if a person is lying and cheating on you if they say, I love you. I would never lie to you or cheat on you.

I think I know what it's like to have a family that the outside world sees as peculiar or lacking.

If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?

I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.

Obviously, you make preparations before you engage in any meeting.

It seems to me that a Christian like myself is presented with major problems, but they're nothing like the problems of the atheist.

NVC is a reminder; to focus our attention where we are most likely to get our needs met.