Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).

What we learn from History is that no one learns from History

The Americans are a very lucky people. They're bordered to the north and south by weak neighbors, and to the east and west by fish.

God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

Never fight with Russian. On your every stratagem they answer unpredictable stupidity.

...but one can't be irredeemable who shows reverence for books.

Blood doesn't satisfy cravings. It magnifies them.

I think I have a male side about me and you have a female side about you. It's a question of repressing or not.

For every problem, there exists a simple and elegant solution which is absolutely wrong.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.

The way that you address this right-wing extremism is actually by putting forward a truly progressive agenda. That's the only solution here.

Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

I Think, Therefore I Ambient

To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle.