The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.

Experience shows that nothing is operated with less economy and with more waste of labor and material of every kind than public services and undertakings. Private enterprise on the other hand naturally induces the owner to work with the greatest economy in his own interest.

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

A citizen who casts his ballot without having to the best of his abilities studied as much economics as he can fails in his civic duties.

As society is only possible if everyone, while living his own life, at the same time helps others to live; if every individual is simultaneously means and end; if each individual's well-being is simultaneously the condition necessary to the well-being of others, it is evident that the contrast between I and thou, means and end, automatically is overcome.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs to fight it. But it is a proof of the fact that those taking recourse to violent oppression are in their subconscious convinced of the untenability of their own doctrines.