A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

Not to know the past is to be in bondage to it, while to remember, to know, is to be set free.

Religion belonged to the infancy of humanity. Now that humanity had come of age, it should be left behind.

An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment.

all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states.

Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war.

Desire presses ever forward unsubdued.