The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born.

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do... Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is the first unscrupulous individual who happens to come along?

The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is, to the extent to which the law of violence was replaced in men's consciousness by the law of love.

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.