It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

It is said that God is always on the side of the big battalions.

So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.

It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force than the minds of a single village.

Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.

War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.