"War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves."

"All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do."

"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."

"The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits."

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

"Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking; where it is absent, discussion is apt to become worse than useless."

"The more that is given the less people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase."

Leo Tolstoy