When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles

Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy.

Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge.

Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.

Balance is what distinguishs a people from a mob.