A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.
Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.
Every work of art depicts an aspect of reality.
The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
We are not cave dwellers anymore, we live in the age of technology. When someone needs a car, he does not need to build it. He can buy it. When someone needs a murder, he himself does not need to kill. He can order it.