A leader is the wave pushed ahead by the ship.

[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.

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.

There is no genius where there is not simplicity.

Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.

The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.

When one's head is gone one doesn't weep for one's hair!