“The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.”
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Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.