Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being. |
Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace. |
No one can escape the influence of a prevailing ideology, |
Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation. |
Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A genius is precisely a man who defies all schools and rules, who deviates from the traditional roads of routine and opens up new paths through land inaccessible before. A genius is always a teacher, never a pupil; he is always self-made. |
Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. |
Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner. |
The attainment of the economic aims of man presupposes peace. |
The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air |
The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war. |
The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest. |
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster. |
The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. |
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war. |
War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods. |