the function of militarism is to kill. It cannot live except through murder.

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

Even were the workers able to have their own representatives, for which our good Socialist politicians are clamoring, what chances are there for their honesty and good faith?

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.

How long would authority ... exist, if not for the willingness of the mass to become soldiers, policemen, jailers, and hangmen.

Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.

Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.