"To put it bluntly, I ask myself firstly, are such people truly serious about any ethical and moral convictions? I am convinced that in nine out of ten cases, they are windbags puffed up with hot air a…"

"In that case the word holds for these youths: 'Mind you, the devil is old; grow old to understand him.'"

"The Protestant wanted to work in a calling; we are forced to do so."

"Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. It takes both passion and perspective."

"It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true. Anyone who fails to see this is, indeed, a political infant."