Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems of alltimes are spattered with blood. Invariably the big ones devoured the little ones, and the little ones the tiny ones.

The savages don't have atom bombs.

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

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

There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them

He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.