Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

The vegetarian movement ought to fill with gladness the souls of those who have at heart the realization of God's kingdom upon earth, not because vegetarianism itself is such an important step towards the realization of this kingdom (all real steps are equally important or unimportant), but because it serves as a criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of man is genuine and sincere.

Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before.

The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce.

The question of how things will settle down is the only important question.

Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth