[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.

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.

And the angel said - "I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love".

What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.