A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war.

There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.

Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.

To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.