The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.

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.

But I'm not dead, " Blue pointed out."BUT YOU ARE PRETTY SHORT.

Aren't we all in varying degrees, captives in our own personal prisons, bound by our limiting habits?

I love you forever. I am sorry I cannot love you now.

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

We're highly adaptable and have developed some powerful systems of representation.

For doing comedy, a sense of humor is a must!

One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.

I have always tried to work with first-time actors since my first movie. I always like to do movies with debutants.

Al Gore is producing enough hot air to make his doomsday predictions about global warming a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Honestly, ever since I've been married, the part of a job as an actress where you have to kiss other people, I find totally bizarre.