I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew.

Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.

Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.

It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that if each people and each State considers itself the best of peoples and States, they all live in a gross and harmful delusion.

Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.

From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.