Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he has done good. When, therefore, it is said, 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,' it is not meant, thou shalt love him first and do him good in consequence of that love, but thou shalt do good, to thy neighbor; and this thy beneficence will engender in thee that love to mankind which is the fulness and consummation of the inclination to do, good.

Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly.

By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

Life on earth is a hand-to-hand mortal combat... between the law of love and the law of hate.

I die for my fatherland. I have a clear conscience. I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler.