People avoid action. Often because they are afraid of the consequences, for action means risk and danger. Danger seems terrible from a distance; it is not so bad if you have a close look at it

Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.

Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

What is history, indeed, but a record of change?

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.