If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.

A comprehensive education is a well-stocked pharmacy: but we have no assurance that potassium cyanide will not be administered fora head cold.

To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves; and more than that, it is an instigator.

Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.