Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.

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.

Whenever I see all around, I see nothing except atoms & molecules

God created all living things to bring forth seed, not reproduce shrines.

It's simple. You enrich your life when you enrich the lives of others.

My thoughts are with you all. Forever conscious of the vast, absurd universe and writing my eternal story I shall remain dead, but dreaming.

I mean, if you didn't get it or if you didn't feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

Many people leave the country to see beautiful places. I just look out the window and see some of the most gorgeous scenery ever, right here in the USA.

Originality is really important.

I don't think you should ever insult people unintentionally: if you're doing it, you ought to mean it.

It's so interesting to me how songs take on a shape and body of their own and grow.

In the culture of pluralism...the only thing that cannot be tolerated is a claim to exclusivity.