Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.

In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.

The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.

There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face with coal dust and fight body to body.

The big bankers of the world, who practise the terrorism of money, are more powerful than kings and field marshals, even more than the Pope of Rome himself. They never dirty their hands. They kill no-one: they limit themselves to applauding the show.