Physical violence is the basis of authority.

Three things are needed to educate the peasantry: schools, schools, and schools.

A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in regard to Ireland, India and other possessions; and each should help to do this, because the greater the state, the more wrong and cruel is its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. Therefore, if we really wish to be what we profess to be, we must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening, and help this forward with all our might.

It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.

Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.

The question of how things will settle down is the only important question.

He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death.