“a man can do as he will, but not will as he will,”

That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him.

Heroism by order, senseless violence, and all the pestilent nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism—how I hate them! War seems to me a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business.