Your liberators tell you that that your suppressors are Wilhelm, Nikolaus, Pope Gregory the Twenty Eighth, Morgan, Krupp or Ford. And your "liberators" are called Mussolini, Napoleon, Hitler and Stalin. I tell you: "Only you yourself can be your liberator!"

The fact that Hitler was a political genius unmasks the nature of politics in general as no other fact can.

It is above all man's social position that decides whether he will sublimate his sadism as a butcher, surgeon, or policeman.

I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.

Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin.

Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, even – no, especially – when you stand on your dignity; and since you despise yourself, you are unable to respect your friend. You can't bring yourself to believe that anyone you have sat at table with, or shared a house with, is capable of great achievement. That is why all great men have been solitary. It is hard to think in your company, little man. One can only think 'about' you, or 'for your benefit', not 'with' you, for you stifle all big, generous ideas.