Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?

All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the Russians. But in reality it was not like that...The majority of the people paid no attention to the general course of events but were influenced only by their immediate personal interests.

Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications of the collective action the less is his participation in that action.

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.

And the cause of everything is that which we call God.

There are many faiths, but the spirit is one.