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Do we still have the right to be more than victims?

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

Humor is the mask of wisdom.

There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.

The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.

A story is not finished, until it has taken the worst turn

Truth is always a delusion.

World history is tragic.

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.

It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.

Human life is beyond comprehension.

A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.

The savages don't have atom bombs.

Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.

You can't take back an act you were able to think.

Justice is horrible.

It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.

To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.

The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.

Prior to the meeting, there was a prayer. In general, in the United States there was always praying.

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

There is no greater cruelty than a genius stumbling over something idiotic.

He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

We are the world.

A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.

Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back.

Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.

I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.

A world is in flames, and you are cracking silly jokes.

Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.

A writer doesn't solve problems. He allows them to emerge.

There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.

The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.

Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.

So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.

The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.

Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.

When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.

Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.

The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.

What concerns everyone can only be resolved by everyone.

Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.

There are thoughts we must not think.

Reality can be only partially attacked by logic.

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.

Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being.

The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity.

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

Whoever wants to hide a big scandal is best to stage a small one

It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim.

This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?

Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

Power is paradoxical.

One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn.

A story has been thought to its conclusion when it has taken its worst possible turn.

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.