Everything what's inspiring has been created by one who could work in freedom

It seems to me an utterly futile task to prescribe rules and limitations for the conduct of war. War is not a game; hence one cannot wage war by rules as one would in playing games. Our fight must be against war itself. The masses of people can most effectively fight the institution of war by establishing an organization for the absolute refusal of military service.

The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are plenty of the well-endowed ones too, thank God, and I am firmly convinced that most of them live quiet, unregarded lives.

For the most part, I do the thing which my own nature prompts me to do. It is embarrassing to earn so much respect and love for it.

The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.

We should be on our guard not to overestimate science and scientific methods when it is a question of human problems, and we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have the right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.