A.R. Von Quotes

All my life I've been looking for diversity

In this country, you have movie actors and theatre actors and television actors

It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis.

We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made.

There are two things civilized Man should never see being made: Sausages and Laws.

Hitler was the fate of Germany and this fate could not be stayed.

Reality is not what it used to be.

It is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is. And the best way is with gratitude while trying to improve it for the good of others and themselves.

Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man.

In the moral world there is nothing impossible if we can bring a thorough will to it. Man can do everything with himself, but he must not attempt to do too much with others.

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.

Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.

The progress of mankind is due exclusively to the progress of natural sciences, not to morals, religion or philosophy.

He that is overcautious will accomplish little.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

Democracy means decision by those concerned.

War is politics by other means.

Boldness becomes rarer, the higher the rank.

The art of war in its highest point of view is policy.

Everything in strategy is very simple, but that does not mean everything is very easy.

Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.

Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.

I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.

...forgiving is not the same as forgetting.

Most people were raised to believe they are just as good as the next person. I was always told I was better.

Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.

Thank God for the white male power structure.

It's not about going to a party. It's life as a party.

I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.

Beauty made you love, and love made you beautiful.

We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.

Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

We certainly do not regard it as right that the citizens of a large country should dominate those of a small adjoining country merely because they are more numerous.

Least of all shall we preserve democracy or foster its growth if all the power and most of the important decisions rest with an organization far too big for the common man to survey or comprehend.

The tribunal of God and of the pope is one and the same.

Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.

If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them.

Mystery is truth's dancing partner.

What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.

A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.

Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences

If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.

To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities

He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.

A good person, striving dimly, Is well aware of the right path.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.

Change amuses the mind, but rarely profits.

Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.

The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.