To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities . . . than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.
Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.
The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
the insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense that the aim of an armament race is to guard the peace is even older, namely as old as the discovery of propaganda lies.
To think and to be fully alive are the same.
The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.