You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can't give it back because you haven't got it yourself.

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

... 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.

One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

Truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.

Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.