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

I have a most peaceable disposition. My desires are for a modest hut, a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, very fresh milk and butter, flowers in front of my window and a few pretty trees by my door. And should the good Lord wish to make me really happy, he will allow me the pleasure of seeing about six or seven of my enemies hanged upon those trees.

God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.

Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

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.