If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out that there are hundreds, thousands, even millions of other people just as we are, who see the truth as we do...and are only waiting, again as we are, for someone to proclaim it. The Kingdom of God is within you.

For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.

[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived of everything which is precious to a man-of the chief human property, rational freedom-and become submissive, machine-like implements of murder in the hands of their organized hierarchic authorities.

No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit

Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.