Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.

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.

Part of water which is cooler always flows to below surface.I understand that hotheaded men always want to be noticed.

The great act is love.

Where do you go when you die twice-lest a thousand deaths?

From the very beginningperplexing and wanderingfrom one ocean to anotheran everlasting wander

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

A person's life is a journey, a road. Sometimes you go off the road and sometimes you stay on all the way through. But you are the only one on that road. It's your road.

I think every writer lives for the thought that there will be a moment when somebody reads something on the page and says, "Yes!"

Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax.

I knew that I was going to dedicate my life to music and that was it.