The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create.

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

You cannot build up a standing army and then throw it back into a box like tin soldiers. Armies equipped to the teeth with weapons, with highly developed instruments of murder and backed by their military interests, have their own dynamic functions.

Militarism consumes the strongest and most productive elements of each nation. Militarism swallows the largest part of the national revenue.

Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

From infancy, almost, the average girl is told that marriage is her ultimate goal; therefore her training and education must be directed toward that end. Like the mute beast fattened for slaughter, she is prepared for that.

There is no such thing as a good government. There never was. There can't be.