You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.

There's something to be said for relatives...it has to be said because it's unprintable!

The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.