If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

War can really cause no economic boom, at least not directly, since an increase in wealth never does result from destruction of goods.

The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.

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.