I am certain, however, that those responsible for the murder of millions of Germans will never be brought to justice.

I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.

Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think.

To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.

Your time will come to follow me Jew

I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn't escape left or right because of the will of the driver.

I never did anything, great or small, without obtaining in advance express instructions from Adolf Hitler or any of my superiors.

Repentance is for little children.

My political sentiments inclined toward the left and emphasized the socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones.

Friend of everyone is friend of none.

With acting, you gotta wait until someone gives you a role in a play or movie. With writing, you're not dependent on others, you don't have to wait. You can sit down and just create.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.

It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.

Even the smallest light can grow until there’s no darkness left.

No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

But I'm real conscious about what I do. I don't care what the label is. I'm looking at the outcome of it.

Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.