Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.

Do what is right, though the world may perish.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.

If the general government should persist in the measures now threatened, there must be war. It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of …

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

'I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in place of dem…