Hate is more lasting than dislike

Democracy—the deceitful theory that all men are created equal.

Either the world will be governed according to the ideas of modern democracy and the weight of any decision will result in favor of the numerically stronger races, or the world will be dominated in accordance with the laws of the natural order of force, and then it is the peoples of brutal will who will conquer.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

Something always remains and sticks from the most impudent lies, a fact which all bodies and individuals concerned with the art of lying in this world know only too well, and hence they stop at nothing to achieve this end.

The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.

Stalin, too, must command our unconditional respect. In his own way he is a hell of a fellow! He knows his models, Genghiz Khan and the others, very well.

Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.

Wisdom comes only through suffering.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

To learn is to be young, however old.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Many value appearances more than reality—thus they violate what’s right.

Many value appearances more than reality—thus they violate what’s right.

The wisest of the wise still fail.

In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.

Time in its aging course teaches all things, overtakes all things alike, and brings all things to pass.

To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile.

The force of necessity is irresistible.

Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant or an enemy, must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.