One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the final result is often small indeed.

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.

Nothing is unreal as long as you can imagine like a crow

Some people are naturally good, you know, and others are not. I'm one of the others.

I don't want to die. I want to live. I want to live long enough so I can really live.

If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.

Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.

Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

Expel the object!" Freak shouts. "Regurgitate, you big moron!" and he gives me another thump and I cough up this yucky mess, but I'm still laughing so hard my nose is running.

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.