Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself.

To destroy governmental violence, only one thing is needed: It is that people should understand that the feeling of patriotism, which alone supports that instrument of violence, is a rude, harmful, disgraceful, and bad feeling, and, above all, is immoral.

He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.

Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

... it is the work and not the reward that is precious.

Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness