I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer's pen during his lifetime? At no time has this ennobled our history.

... scientists have made no clear effort to become an important, independently active force of mankind. Whole congresses at a time, they back away from the suffering of others; it is more comfortable to stay within the bounds of science.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off.

The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.