All people who have reached the point of becoming nations tend to despise foreigners, but there is not much doubt that the English-speaking races are the worst offenders. One can see this from the fact that as soon as they become fully aware of any foreign race they invent an insulting nickname for it.

In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.

If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.