Quotes by Julien Benda

Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things which cannot be shared, and if they raise themselves to a point where they adopt an abstract principle superior to their egotisms. In other words, it can only be obtained by a betterment of human morality.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.

I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.