... Whenever the man of science introduces his personal value judgment, a full understanding of the facts ceases.

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.

Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living.

Success is a mind-set. If you think you can’t achieve something, then you won’t but if you believe you can achieve something, then nothing will stand in your way.

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.

Ideas are like wine. They get better when they have time to mature.

The thinking that got us to where we are is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to be.

A basically dishonest man can survive longer in the church or the classroom than he can in the grain exchange or the furniture business.

True love believes everything, and bears everything, and trusts everything.

TV is a much more female-friendly environment.

Poverty is the mother of all revolutions

I can't wait for the time when curves and a little belly fat will be sexy again!