"The modern power of the State began in the late fifteenth century and began as a result of gunpowder."

"Conscientious objection is a right that the state should respect, but which it has hardly ever respected."

"It is easy to imagine a world where the sun never sets, and yet the inhabitants are miserable."

"What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy."

"I have been accused of being a Communist, which I am not. I am a libertarian socialist."