It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.

There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.

Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous egotism.

It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one's work so devilishly seriously.

We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. And those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.