Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.
Power is paradoxical.
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
World history is tragic.
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.
Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.
Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
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.