What is generally regarded as success - acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige - I consider the most dismal failures. I hold when it is said of a man that he has arrived, it means that he is finished - his development has stopped at that point.

Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.

so few people realize that preparedness never leads to peace, but that it is indeed the road to universal slaughter.

I believe - indeed, I know - that whatever is fine and beautiful in the human expresses and asserts itself in spite of government, and not because of it.

readiness,' far far from assuring peace, has at all times and in all countries been instrumental in precipitating armed conflicts.

There can be no freedom in the large sense of the word, no harmonious development, so long as mercenary and commercial considerations play an important part in the determination of personal conduct.

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.