“Certainly we shall rise, certainly we shall see and gladly, joyfully tell one another all that has been.”

“We may be together for another six months—a year—there’s no knowing. At the end we’re certain to be apart. Do you realize how utterly alone we shall be?”

“It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.”

“We live by our labors from one harvest to the next, there is no certain telling whether we shall be able to feed ourselves and our children, and if bad times are prolonged we know we must see the weak surrender their lives and this fact, too, is within our experience. In our lives there is no margin for misfortune.”

“The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behaviour; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently toward one another… We are the State and we shall continue to be the State until we have created the institutions that form a real community.”

“Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”