Either one lives for politics or one lives off politics.

In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey me.' People and party are then no longer free to interfere in his business.

The decisive means for politics is violence.

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

Nothing is worthy of man as man unless he can pursue it with passionate devotion.

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money.

It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

Love as if you were created by the universe just to love.

If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts?

To think that God is compassionate is a terrible mistake. To think that God is wrathful is equally stupid. God isn't emotional. You are. To superimpose your emotions on infinity is typically human.

Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.

I am a demonstrative man, a baby picker-upper, a hugger and a kisser--that's my nature.

Who wants to privatize Medicare.

The first film I can remember seeing on TV was 'The Brides of Dracula.' I was instantly hooked.

We know who you are [ Donald Trump] and what you said you will do. And we don't want the public policy that you are proposing.

I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.

Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.