The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.

He who fights with priests may make up his mind to have his poor good name torn and befouled by the most infamous lies and the most cutting slanders.

In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress.

That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people.

If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It is Shakespeare.