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The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
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The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France
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How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?
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I believe that rules do not make us moral; loving each other makes us moral.
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If the present civilisation does not acquire some stable moral fondations ("bases morales stables", Fr.), its existence will hardly be more assured than that of the civilisations that have preceeded it, and which have fallen (or collapse, or failed
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There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.
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We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.
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We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
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Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.
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Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.
