Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.

A humanitarian is always a hypocrite.

Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

Do you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy, since I was at least a person who understood you and could be talked to? You were right. I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.