A.R. Von Quotes

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.

Great men have great dogs.

The greatest gain from space travel consists in the extension of our knowledge. In a hundred years this newly won knowledge will pay huge and unexpected dividends.

You can't destroy the polish national-consciousness or Poles on the battlefield, but if you give them power, they will destroy themselves

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

The fact is that, under a capitalistic system, the ultimate bosses are the consumers. The sovereign is not the state, it is the people.

If you tell me precisely what it is a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that.

The fundamental law of the market is: the customer is always right.

Italy is only a geographical expression.

Man is not made for space. But with the help of biologists and medical doctors, he can be prepared and accommodated.

Fools you are who say you like to learn from your mistakes. I prefer to learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid the cost of my own.

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.

The solution of every problem is another problem

What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Go to a place where you're not going to be stressed, because a honeymoon itself can be a stressful thing.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

You have to nourish your creativity for it to flourish.

It is the low drive for sameness and the hatred of otherness that characterizes all forms of leftism, which inevitably are totalitarian.

I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.

An intelligent woman has millions of born enemies... all the stupid men.

Few are ready to recognize that the rise of fascism and Nazism was not a reaction against the socialist trends of the preceding period but a necessary outcome of those tendencies.

Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.

I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.

We could all be mediums, and all have absolute knowledge, if the bright light of our ego consciousness would not dim it.

The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.

Whatever Boelcke told us was taken as Gospel!

Whoever can find the answer to this question: "How can I say this to my dog" has already won the game.

If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.

Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.

Statistical projections which speak to the senses without fatiguing the mind, possess the advantage of fixing the attention on a great number of important facts.

Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.

There is much in Christianity which can be subjected to exact analysis. But the ultimate things are shrouded in the silent mysteries of God.

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates into demagoguery.

Precaution is better than cure.

You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong.

No music is vulgar, unless it is played in a way that makes it so.

It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program - on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off - than on any positive task.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.