He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war.