Whenever I Hear Anyone Arguing For Slavery I Feel

My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.

Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

Man is something that shall be overcome.

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage