It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

... ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance... A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon -- so long as there is no answer to it -- gives claws to the weak.

He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable

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

International football is the continuation of war by other means.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.