As intellectualism suppresses belief in magic, the world's processes become disenchanted, lose the magical significance, and henceforth simply 'are' and 'happen' but no longer signify anything.

In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey me.' People and party are then no longer free to interfere in his business.

The decisive means for politics is violence.

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

Nothing is worthy of man as man unless he can pursue it with passionate devotion.

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money.

It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

In the depths of hell roasting on a spit if it meant getting to be close to you.

Even lungs that are gasping are lungs that are trying.

To fulfill your vision, you must have hindsight, insight and foresight.

Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.

The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.

Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?

Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.

I don't have any ambition.

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.