There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them

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.

I'm the living embodiment of 'it could be worse'.

Money isn’t the only measure of making a house a home.

It's awkward to tell others that your spouse has died. Everyone becomes so sad and sorry, and you just hate like heck to have to break the news to someone who hasn't heard the news.

If we don't help each other, who will?

I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.

Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.

That's more like it. You're much prettier when you aren't talking. True of most people, I've found.

Wholeness invokes balance.

But I hope that it will also be demonstrated soon that in my experiments in the West I was not merely beholding a vision, but had caught sight of a great and profound truth.

People can live tremendously rich, blissful, ecstatic lives. But the first thing is, we have to accept our responsibility.