Before we can study the central issues of life today, we must destroy the prejudices and fallacies born of previous centuries.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work - anything so as not think of death

Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?

If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better. But if Christianity really gives peace, and if we really want peace, then patriotism is a leftover from barbarous times, which must not only not be evoked and taught, as we now do, but which must be eradicated by all means of preaching, persuasion, contempt, and ridicule. If Christianity is the truth, and if we wish to live in peace, then we must not only have no sympathy for the power of our country, but must even rejoice in its weakening and contribute to it.

With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.