Anne

"It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too. I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end and that peace and tranquility will return again." p. 237

"I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone, are guilty of the war. Oh no, the little man is just as guilty, otherwise the peoples of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, until all mankind , without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again."p. 201

"La majorité des gens serait-elle aussi égoiste et rapace? Je suis très contente d'avoir un peu approfondi ma connaissance de l'espèce humaine, ici, mais je trouve qu'à présent cela suffit. "
p. 164

"J'entends ces bavardages à longueur de journée, débarquement par-ci, débarquement par-là, des disputes sur la faim, la mort, les bombes, les extincteurs, les sacs de couchage, les cartes d'identité juives, les gaz asphyxiants, etc. Rien de très encourageant. " p. 176