I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.