Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right.

Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.

Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, thats what were needing! Weve needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine oclock.

Each economy relies on the credit system, that is, on the erroneous assumption that the other will pay back money pumped.

One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic

Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one loves) and to say loudly: No!

How wonderful it is, to be silent with someone.