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.
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.
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
The savages don't have atom bombs.
It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.
Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.
The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.
You can't take back an act you were able to think.
One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.
Justice is horrible.
A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn.
Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it.
Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.
We are the world.
I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him.
The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.
In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.
Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
There are thoughts we must not think.
Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.
When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.
World history is tragic.
Power is paradoxical.
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.
A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.
Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.
There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.
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, justice, freedom and reason.
The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back.
This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?
It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim.
Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
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.
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.
Human life is beyond comprehension.
The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity.
Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.
Truth is always a delusion.
The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
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