"All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility."

"And so there was no single cause for war, but it happened simply because it had to happen"

"We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening."

"The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded."

"In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful."

"Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence."

"Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence."

"The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest and opposition. It is like the cold, darkness and weight, which people had to put up with until recently when warmth, illumination and leverage were discovered...."

"Why does man have reason if he can only be influenced by violence?"

"As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism."