For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place for their exhibition and use.

My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

I regard large inherited wealth as a misfortune, which merely serves to dull men's faculties. A man who possesses great wealth should, therefore, allow only a small portion to descend to his relatives. Even if he has children, I consider it a mistake to hand over to them considerable sums of money beyond what is necessary for their education. To do so merely encourages laziness and impedes the healthy development of the individual's capacity to make an independent position for himself.

Justice is to be found only in the imagination.

I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.

The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.