War is a crime committed by men and, therefore, when enough people say it shall not be, it cannot be.

Men alone are not capable of making laws for men and women.

The greatest insult came at the marriage ceremony when the minister asked 'who giveth this woman,' and some brother, or father or other man, unblushingly said he did, as though it were entirely a commercial transaction between men.

People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future.

War proves nothing. To kill a man does not prove that he was in the wrong. Bloodletting cannot change men's spirits, neither can the evil of men's thoughts be driven out by blows. If I go to my neighbor's house, and break her furniture, and smash her pictures, and bind her children captive, it does not prove that I am fitter to live than she - yet according to ethics of nations it does. I have conquered her and she must pay me for my trouble; and her house and all that is left in it belongs to my heirs and successors, forever. That is war!

Humanity has to travel a hard road to wisdom, and it has to travel it with bleeding feet.

A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.