Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.

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.

it's something rebellious about picking up and leaving buying a one way ticket and not knowing when you want to return.

The best diet is the one that can be sustained over the long term, combined with other healthful lifestyle behaviors.

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

I want to marry a [guy], so i can rest my soul with [him] till we both get old. This can't go on all the time-- all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something.

Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.

Lack of time is a real health killer.

Some wish that I was gone, cause they know I'ma win.

I love editing, and I don't mind when things are edited and you can see the editing.

If you're going to make music, you need to find the context in which it might be enjoyed.