“War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.”
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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.