The Truth is the Truth.

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.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

We are a strong democratic country.

The fragrances are really a dream about the possibilities of a life. Nonconformity, no judgement.

Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.

Princes give mee sufficiently, if they take nothing from me, and doe me much good, if they doe me no hurt: it is all I require of them.

I fall into all kinds of inauthenticity when I conspire to forget my mortality.

It doesn't have to be perfect...as long as you're happy with it.

It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all.

All great novels are great fairy tales.