Controversial Sayings

I'm trying to be a good person, but I'm also trying to be entertaining.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

No man was ever wise by chance.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed.

The individual is a passive vessel to be filled by the environment.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing.

The truth does not contradict the truth; rather, it is consistent with it and bears witness to it.

The state is the very organ of social thought.

The bureaucracy is the means of transforming social action into rationally organized action.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born.

The idea that we should base our political life on religious or metaphysical conceptions of the good is profoundly anti-democratic.

Killing a disabled infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Very often it is not wrong at all.

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

The sage is a mirror to heaven and earth, a glass to all things.

There is no such thing as a righteous war.

The nature of man is such that he is born with a fondness for profit.