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

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

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.

Human life is beyond comprehension.

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

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

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

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

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

Justice is horrible.

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

Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back.

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

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

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

Power is paradoxical.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.

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

The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.

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