If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ''our'' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

Morality is contraband in war.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.