Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.

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.

Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing.

When the first baby laughed for the first time the laugh broke into a million pieces and they all went skipping about. That was the beginning of fairies.

I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'

Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.

I like watching sports, you know, all sorts of stuff.

I am a Bay Area guy, no question.

I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.

I am not a black artist, I am an artist.

Terrorists had the advantage of surprise.

I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.