What concerns everyone can only be resolved by everyone.

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.

Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.

It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.

People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.

The archetype of all humans, their ideal image, is the computer, once it has liberated itself from its creator, man. The computeris the essence of the human being. In the computer, man reaches his completion.