Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.

Why must children die? I have reached the conclusion that the only purpose in the life of every man is to strengthen love within himself, and by strengthening it within himself, to infect other people with it

The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born.