One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.

The old terms must be invented with new meaning and given new explanations. Liberty, equality, and fraternity are no longer what they were in the days of the late-lamented guillotine. This is what the politicians will not understand; and that is why I hate them. They want only their own special revolutions- external revolutions, political revolutions, etc. But that is only dabbling. What is really needed is a revolution of the human spirit.

What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.

It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.