Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.

Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one second all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror.

For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.

I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.

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.