The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.

Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.