“In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.”
“This system of chain wars can end only in two ways: either it will result in horrible physical destructions and concomitant revolutionary changes of social order beyond reasonable guesses; or, with the natural change of generations, it will lead to the abandoning of Gnostic dreaming before the worst has happened.”
“Surrender . . .sacrificing my life or suffering in order to change what needs to be changed”
“You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.”
“There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.”
“In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.”