“Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions.”

“When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly through life. Moreover, I soon discovered the cruelty of that chase, which in those years was much more carefully covered up by hypocrisy and glittering words than is the case today. By the mere existence of his stomach everyone was condemned to participate in that chase. The stomach might well be satisfied by such participation, but not man insofar as he is a thinking and feeling being.”

“Conviction is a good motive, but a bad judge.”

“All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.”

“It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”

“Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.”

“It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.”