“The angels are as perfect in form as they are in spirit.”

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter,

I did not take this dress or do anything but by the command of Our Lord and of the Angels.

Do you think the Voice would come to me? I would that every one could hear the Voice as I hear it.

Four things are laid upon me: to drive out the English; to bring you to be crowned and anointed at Reims; to rescue the Duke of Orléans from the hands of the English; and to raise the siege of Orleans.

It is better to be alone with God. His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love.

Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

The Maid and her soldiers will have the victory. Therefore the Maid is willing that you, Duke of Bedford, should not destroy yourself.

I answered the voice that I was a poor girl who knew nothing of riding and warfare.

But I must go, and I must do this thing, because my Lord will have it so. Rather now than tomorrow, and tomorrow than the day after!

Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God.

Every man gives his life for what he believes … one life is all we have to live and we live it according to what we believe.

I am not afraid; I was born to do this.

It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days.

I am the drum on which God is beating out his message.

I would have gone nevertheless.

Hope in God. If you have good hope and faith in Him, you shall be delivered from your enemies.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

The whole wrestling art, it’s a whole form, is performance, and that’s what makes it so exciting to do.

And gradually they’re beginning to recognize the fact that there’s nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it’s sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.

Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.

I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.