A.R. Von Quotes
Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.
Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
People are not machines, but in all situations where they are given the opportunity, they will act like machines.
There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.
By living up to their calling, women will succeed in guaranteeing a proper recognition of the unique value of femininity and its crucial mission in the world.
No one should notice how your eyes are done or the color of your eyeshadow. They should just notice you and notice that you're beautiful, that you have beautiful eyes.
Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.
When you feel humiliated or things like that, you either use it as fuel to change or you get covered by it.
Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience.
I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.
The prerequisite for more economic equality in the world is industrialization. And this is possible only through increased capital investment, increased capital accumulation.
All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to adapt to them.
For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.
God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming.
Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.
Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman's nature conceals more dangers than you think.
Only in Christ are all things in communion. He is the point of convergence of all hearts and beings and therefore the bridge and the shortest way from each to each.
Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.
A truth that is merely handed on, without being thought anew from its very foundations, has lost its vital power.
It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.
I began imagining scenes in public which some drunk would come up to me and slap me in the face. Nothing like that ever happened, but I often wonder if I would have turned the other cheek
Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.
