“The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty”

“If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.”

“To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.”

“To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.”

“All wickedness comes from weakness. The child is wicked only because he is weak. Make him strong; he will be good. He who could do everything would never do harm.”

“So finally we tumble into the abyss, we ask God why he has made us so feeble. But, in spite of ourselves, He replies through our consciences: 'I have made you too feeble to climb out of the pit, because i made you strong enough not to fall in.”

“Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.”