That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

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.

There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude.

Money is easy to hide.

We have to figure out how to deal with Iran as the principal state sponsor of terrorism in the world.

I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions.

I think it is outrageous - to lock people's money away and change the rules on them. So, on point of principle, I stopped putting money into my pension.

I love writing family stories.

We have a very good head thing but we don't make love.

Ken Bates is a football cretin.

We can deal with Russia on counterterrorism. We have and I think we are right now. That's easy.

Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.