I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.

The sounds proceeding from the instruments of symphonic music seem to be the very organs of the mysteries of creation; for they reveal, as it were, the primal stirrings of creation which brought order out of chaos long before the human heart was there to behold them.

Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.

If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.