Controversial Sayings

I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay? It’s incredible.

The euro is our common destiny. If the euro fails, then Europe fails.

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator.

The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.

I can only say that I am not a homosexual. I am a normal man.

Totalitarianism is not just a system of power, but also a way of life, a way of thinking, a way of being.

By God's teeth, I will sell London if I can find a buyer rich enough!

I am a slave of God, but also a sovereign of my own will.

The priest is the most formidable enemy of Italy.

A conquering army is always in the right.

The courage of a man is shown in commanding, of a woman in obeying.

All men are therefore equal, not in the sense that they are all alike, but in the sense that they all have the same rights and duties.

The two great narcotics of Europe, alcohol and Christianity.

The executive of the modern state is nothing but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State 'What does it matter to me?' the State may be given up for lost.

Cogito, ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)

Covenants, without the sword, are but words, and of no strength to secure a man at all.

The government of a country by a mere numerical majority, is a thing which cannot be permanent.

The great advantage of the present-day bourgeoisie is to possess no moral, no ideal, no religion, no God, no sacred values.

The most important thing for me is to try to understand what is happening in the world today.