“Of all the forces that are exerted on us over our lifetime, at least for me, love has been the most powerful of all.”

Annotated Drawings by Eugene J. Martin: 1977-1978

Source: Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907), Ch.4 Why Has Christianity Never Undertaken the Work of Social Reconstruction?, p. 150

Source: All About Love: New Visions

In response to the question, "Who are some of the most interesting people you have interacted with?", from the interview "Rising Star Giovanni Morassutti: “Never take it personally; It is part of the business", ThriveGlobal (December 23, 2019) https://thriveglobal.com/stories/rising-star-giovanni-morassutti-never-take-it-personally-it-is-part-of-the-business/.

The Glass Bead Game (1943)
Context: It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils. History, after all, consisted of an unbroken succession of rulers, leaders, bosses, and commanders who with extremely rare exceptions had all begun well and ended badly. All of them, at least so they said, had striven for power for the sake of the good; afterward they had become obsessed and numbed by power and loved it for its own sake.

'Heath's spadework for socialism', The Sunday Times (25 March 1973), p. 61
1970s

History of the Church, 5:23–24 (9 June 1842)
1840s

In response to criticism of controversial paintings, in Self Portrait (1963), p. 342
Context: There is … your high bridge in Pasadena from which every once in a while someone jumps off, committing suicide. There is no question of removing the bridge. Poems have been written by well-known authors that are supposed to have driven love-sick young people to suicide. These works are not banned. Thousands lose their lives in automobile accidents, yet nothing is done to restrain manufacturers from building lethal instruments that can do more than 30 miles an hour. To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society. An unskilled cook or doctor can put our lives in danger. l have tried … to paint a picture that would, like the beautiful head of Medusa, turn the spectator to stone … so that certain ones who looked at it would drop dead … but l have not yet succeeded!

As quoted in A Random Walk in Science (1973) by Robert L. Weber, p. 76