We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.
Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
Power is paradoxical.
So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.
World history is tragic.
Who sows fear, reaps weapons.
News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.
Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, j...
Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
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.
Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.