Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.
Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.
The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.
World history is tragic.
Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
Power is paradoxical.
Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.