Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost.
What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough.
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.