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