The total sacrifice to a cause beyond his comprehension restored a richness to man |
Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always. |
There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases. |
There has been talk of the risks this painting took by leaving the Louvre. But the risks taken by the boys who landed one day in Normandy-to say nothing of those who had preceded them 25 years before-were much more certain. |
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman. |
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. |
To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved. |
War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously. |
What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets |
Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted |