It is you men who make war! ... We, who have children, would never make it! Why should a woman be broken up in pain, to give her child life, only to see him carried away from her, to make food for guns?

The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.

No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.

Our responsibility to ourselves comes first -- because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others!

... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled

Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!

This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even along the path of its own development, from the tentacles of self-deception.