I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

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

I want freedom, the right to self-expression , everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson to the visionless dabbler in science, presumes to speak authoritatively of human nature. The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature.

After all, that is what laws are for, to be made and unmade.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass.

Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.