Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.

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.

To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.

But water doesn't care for human sorrows. It flows without slowing or quickening its pace in the darkness of the earth, where only stones will hear.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.

Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion

Rolexes never lose value, so I started getting a couple of them. I like them. Not only do they look good but they work very well.

It is a significant symbol that street art is gaining increased attention and credibility in the art world and that's a good thing.

The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles.

You have all the tools right now to make this day, this moment, happy. The best of these tools is love.

Stupid people are dangerous.