Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think.

I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.

To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.

Your time will come to follow me Jew

I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn't escape left or right because of the will of the driver.

I never did anything, great or small, without obtaining in advance express instructions from Adolf Hitler or any of my superiors.

Repentance is for little children.

I am certain, however, that those responsible for the murder of millions of Germans will never be brought to justice.

My political sentiments inclined toward the left and emphasized the socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones.

You're the proverbial diamond in the rough", she'd said to him once, touching his nose lightly with the tip of her electrifying finger.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.

I was born when I met you, now I'm dying to forget you

Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress.

Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?

Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.

Libertarianism is the enemy of all racism.

My job as the director is to make that as authentic as I can and not to disturb the revelry.

My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.