Controversial Sayings

You have killed my mother, and you will pay for it. Not today, not tomorrow, but you will pay.

The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.

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.

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.

There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

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

Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.

I have seen from my window the fiesta of sunset in the distant mountain tops.

The West has lost its courage, and with it, its soul.

The English are not very inventive; they are more imitative. They have not produced great artists, great painters, great musicians.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

I'm not anti-American, but I'm certainly not pro-American.

I am a Democrat, but I think the Democrats have been pretty stupid.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me, which nothing could extinguish.

Many eminent criminals appear to me to be persons superior in many respects [...] to the average judge.