A.R. Von Quotes

We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.

The artist expresses only what he has within himself, not what he sees with his eyes

Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every be lonely.

Love alone is credible.

Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that.

Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the war party to get people bubbling at the mouth in fear and rage.

Samskrit is the unsurpassed zenith in the whole development of languages yet known to us.

We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself.

Generosity is the best investment.

How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.

It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.

The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

A good financial plan is a road map that shows us exactly how the choices we make today will affect our future.

There's no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.

The boom is called good business, prosperity, and upswing. Its unavoidable aftermath, the readjustment of conditions to the real data of the market, is called crisis, slump, bad business, depression.

War should only be used for a policy worth its sacrifices.

Willing is not enough, we must do.

the garbage cans and mailboxes on the sidewalk would stay the same, but the people would be just a beautiful blur of motion.

Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.

Open the fridge and put My heart on a plate. I'm just as you left me, and I taste even better leftover.

A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.

The Conqueror is always a lover of peace: he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.

Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.

Patriotism ruins history.

One errs as long as one strives.

The whole of mankind's progress has had to be achieved against the resistance and opposition of the state and its power of coercion.

Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.

Grace is the outcome of inward harmony.

Privilege is the greatest enemy of right.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

Not until we have taken a look into the future shall we be strong and bold enough to investigate our paste honestly and impartially

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.

Never expect women to be sincere, so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.

The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

When curiosity turns to serious matters, it's called research.

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.

We can either have a free Parliament or a free people. Personal freedom requires that all authority is restrained by long-run principles which the opinion of the people approves.