The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

You think you have troubles with mathematics . . . I assure you mine are still bigger.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I regard it as a duty of conscience to fight against such barbarous enslavement of the individual with every means available.

We will never be able to solve the problems of tomorrow with the thinking of today

Never let yourself be seduced by any problem, no matter how difficult.

In my opinion there is no other salvation for civilization and even for the human race than the creation of a world government with security on the basis of law. As long as there are sovereign states with their separate armaments and armament secrets, new world wars cannot be avoided.