European Christianity has allowed itself to be intimately united with the powers of this world. Now that these powers are falling, it is as if it were buried under their ruins.

[R]eligion cannot share the material strength of the rulers without being burdened with some of the animosity roused against them.

In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.

Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends....