To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets.
I see nothing but a world of ruins, where a kind of front line is possible only in the catacombs.
Modern capitalism is just as subversive as Marxism. The materialistic view of life on which both systems are based is identical. As long as we only talk about economic classes, profit, salaries, and production, and as long as we believe that real human progress is determined by a particular system of distribution of wealth and goods, then we are not even close to what is essential.
The entrance of the woman with equal rights into practical modern life, her new freedom, her finding herself side by side with men in the streets, offices, professions, factories, sports, and now even in political and military life, is one of those dissolutive phenomena in which, in most cases, it is difficult to perceive anything positive. In essence, all this is simply the renunciation of the woman's right to be a woman.
Western civilisation needs a complete overhaul or it will fall apart one day or another. It has realised the most complete perversion of any rational order of things. Reign of matter, of gold, of machine, of number, it no longer possesses breath, or liberty, or light.
The blood of heroes is closer to the Lord than the ink of scholars and the prayers of the pious.
Neither pleasure nor pain should enter as motives when one must do what must be done.
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book has been brought to bear against that book to stamp it out of the world, but it has a mightier hold on the world today than ever before. If that were man's book it would have been annihilated and forgotten hundreds of years ago.
We are women of the world The colors of our souls, rich and beautiful We sing from the same heart, with many voices
The only person to ever look good in the back of a 4-seater convertible was Adolf Hitler