Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.

When the praying does no good, insurance does help.

He who is still laughing is he who hasn't heard the terrible news.

Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.

People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.