French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.
To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.