The Creator Himself has so arranged matters that human actions are guided by interest and not by justice, which is why all our efforts to establish the value of certain actions are in vain.  We do not know, have never known, and can never know what the result of these actions, or any series of actions, will be for ourselves or for others.  But we all can know which action is just, and which is not.  We can also know that the consequences of justice will eventually be as good as possible for others as well as for ourselves, although we can never say of what this good will consist.  (John Ruskin)

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.  (John 8:32)

Man thinks; he was created thus.  And he should reason in a sensible way; that is evident.  The man who reasons in this manner thinks first of his aim in life.  He thinks of his soul and of God.  Just see of what worldly men are thinking.  They think of everything, except that.  They dream of dancing music, singing, and other pleasures.  They are occupied in building, getting rich, and becoming powerful.  They envy kings and the rich, but they never think of the mission of man.  (Pascal, Daily Reading, June 20th)

All of you – leaders, rich, oppressed, and poor – suffer from the lies of a false and static Christianity, lies that hide what Christ revealed to you and what your reason and your heart order you to do.  From the moment that you are liberated, you will understand that the cause of all your physical and moral sufferings has been in yourself.

Understand then, all of you, that you were born neither slaves nor masters and that you are all free, but you are so only when you have observed the supreme law of life, and this law has been revealed to you.  It will be sufficient for you to renounce the lies that hide it from you for you to see at once in what it consists and where your happiness lies.  This law is in love, and happiness is found in its observance.  Understand that, and you will become really free.  You will today acquire everything that you are vainly seeking to obtain by the complicated means suggested to you by corrupted men.

Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.  Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart.  And you shall find rest for your souls, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.  (Matthew 11:28-32)

You will be preserved from evil and you will acquire the real good, not by looking after your interest, and not by envy, hatred, anger, or ambition; not even by a sense of justice or, above all, by the care of organizing the lives of others.  But, strange as it may seem, you will acquire the real good only by the work of your own soul, not following any outside interests, and not trying to reason with its dictates.

Understand, then, that belief in the possibility of ordering the lives of others is a vulgar superstition, which lasts only on account of its hoary age.  Understand that the men who make use of it, beginning with the leaders of the State and the ministers, and finishing with the spies and executioners on the one hand, and the chiefs and members of the opposition parties on the other, are only pitiable people who have strayed and are occupied with a task, not only vain and stupid, but even the most abominable that one can conceive.

Men already see the ignominy of the spy and executioner, and are beginning to see that of the police, detectives, and even to a certain degree, of military men.  But they do not yet see it of the judge, the minister, the sovereign, chiefs of parties, or revolutionaries.  And yet the work of the latter is as vile and as contrary to human nature, or even worse, than the work of the executioner or the spy, because it is more hypocritical.

Understand then, all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is not only a vulgar superstition, but even a criminal work.  Understand that this work, far from assuring the good of men, is only a lie, a more or less unconscious hypocrisy, and is always hiding the lowest passions.

Understand it, you, men of tomorrow, and stop looking for an illusionary happiness by participating in the administration of the State by judicial institutions, by instruction, and by all kinds of parties that have the good of the masses as an aim.  Pay attention to only one thing, that which you need the most, that which is the most accessible, and that which gives the most happiness to us and to everyone: the increase of love in us by the suppression of vices and passions that keep it from manifesting itself.  Understand that the observance of this supreme law of love is becoming as inevitable for us as is the law of flight for the birds, the law of nutrition by plants for the herbivorous, and the law of nutrition by meat for the carnivorous.  And consequently, understand that the least transgression of this law is disastrous to us.

Remember it and consecrate your life to this joyous work.  Just begin it, and you will see that it is the true work in life, and it alone determines the amelioration of the condition of everybody – an end that you follow blindly by false methods.  Do not forget that the common bond is in the union of men, and that this union can never be attained by means of violence.  It is enough that everyone should observe the law of life, and this union will be realized without the need of seeking for it.  This supreme law, alone, is the same for all of us and unites us all.

Revealed by Christ, it is recognized today by men, and its observance is obligatory as long as there is no other law, a still clearer one, conforming more to the calls of human conscience that have been revealed to us.