It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.

[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.

But if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not only not be evoked and educated, as we now do, but which must be eradicated by all means, by means of preaching, persuasion, contempt, and ridicule.

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.

Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy is, and will be, the tragedy of the bedroom.

Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible.