Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

Humor is the mask of wisdom.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.

Cast your anxious thoughts upon the Lord. He waits to hear you speak!

It's not about you.

Plan, prepare and grow. Repeat.

China is absolutely one of the biggest players in the world and if Britain wants to be connected to the world it has to be connected to China.

I always find that when I do something that I like, from my heart, then it works.

You know that old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran? Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran.

Understudies don't normally get invited to openings.

Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.

There is no substitute for the riches gained on a lifetime basis by the young American who studies or works abroad.