The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.

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 price spoils the pleasure.

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

You're always going to miss your daily eating spots, your daily hangouts with your friends, family. I miss my family like crazy, all the time.

Sophomore records are historically really difficult.

Many who take up burdens come to resent being put upon.

Everything I've ever wanted to do, we've kinda done. Everything beyond this has been just the cherry on top. I've been so happy with the band, and we're so lucky and blessed to be able to do it.

The heavens do not send good haps in handfuls; but let us pick out our good by little, and with care, from out much bad, that still our little world may know its king.

Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.

The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting.

Nonsense. Space is blue and birds fly through it.