Romain Rolland

“I distrust official charity. All charity should be done by stealth.”

— Romain Rolland

The artist is the compass which, through the raging of the storm, points steadily to the north.

— Romain Rolland

One day History will pass judgment on each of the nations at war; she will weigh their measure of errors, lies, and…

— Romain Rolland

The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the…

— Romain Rolland

The true Vedantic spirit does not start out with a system of preconceived ideas. It possesses absolute liberty and unrivalled courage among…

— Romain Rolland

“They were the only members of their family, and they were both humble, crushed, and thrust aside by life; they were united…

— Romain Rolland

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

— Romain Rolland

There are some dead who are more alive than the living.

— Romain Rolland

I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

— Romain Rolland

Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs.

— Romain Rolland

Let us return to our eagle's nest in the Himalayas. It is waiting for us, for it is ours, eaglets of Europe,…

— Romain Rolland

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within…

— Romain Rolland

History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.

— Romain Rolland

I would rather have this life of combat than the moral calm and mournful stupor of these last years. God give me…

— Romain Rolland

Let us seek truth everywhere; let us cull it wherever we can find its blossom or its SEED. Having Found the seed,…

— Romain Rolland

The greatest human ideal is the great cause of bringing together the thoughts of Europe and Asia; the great soul of India…

— Romain Rolland

Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race.

— Romain Rolland

You want to be a hero. That is why you do such silly things.

— Romain Rolland

There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.

— Romain Rolland

You desire a popular art? Begin by having a "people" whose minds are liberated, a people not crushed by misery and ceaseless…

— Romain Rolland

Most men are essentially dead by thirty.

— Romain Rolland

All these young millionaires were anarchists, of course: when a man possesses everything it is the supreme luxury for him to deny…

— Romain Rolland

The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the…

— Romain Rolland

“Islands of memory begin to rise above the river of his life. At first they are little uncharted islands, rocks just peeping…

— Romain Rolland

“A limited number of types,good and bad serve for all ages.”

— Romain Rolland