“We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. 'Am I my brother's keeper?' Most certainly I am! I cannot escape my responsibility by saying the State will do all that is necessary. It is a tragedy that nowadays so many think and feel otherwise.”
“Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.”
“The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?”
“The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.”
“It seemed incredible to me, that physical courage should be so commonplace and revered, while moral courage . . . is so rare and despised.”
“The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.”
“The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.”
