It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.

There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.

I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.

The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught to the common soldier whose trade is to shoot his fellow men. In youth he may have learned the command, 'Thou shalt not kill,' but the ruler takes the boy just as he enters manhood and teaches him that his highest duty is to shoot a bullet through his neighbor's heart - and this, unmoved by passion or feeling or hatred, and without the least regard to right or wrong, but simply because his ruler gives the word.

Chloroform unfit children. Show them the same mercy that is shown beasts that are no longer fit to live.

Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.

I am sure of very little, and I shouldn't be surprised if those things were wrong.