Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

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.

This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.

A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while.

The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.

I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.

Everyone should try to scratch their name on the bomb of life.

Fighting injustice keeps you young.

Part of my job is to make the tough calls.

When everyone has let you down... You still have ice cream.

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good