“Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?”

Revolutions are spiritual acts. They appear first in people, then in politics and the economy. New people form new structures. The transformation we want is first of all spiritual; that will necessarily change the way things are.

We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time, or as the greatest criminals.

The life is worth living. It’s not true, what the tired and reactionary say. We’re not on this earth to suffer and die. We’re here to fulfill a mission.

The money pigs of capitalist democracy: Money has made slaves of us. Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.

I’m so despondent about everything. Everything I try goes totally wrong. There’s no escape from this hole here. I feel drained. So far, I still haven’t found a real purpose in life. Sometimes, I’m afraid to get out of bed in the morning. There’s nothing to get up for.

Man is and remains an animal. Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.

There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.

The night folds her trembling hands over a weary world. Out of a pale blue rises the shining moon. My thoughts are flying to the stars like lonely swans.

A law against hating Jews is usually the beginning of the end for the Jews.

The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity.

Hereafter we all have to be redeemed. The world is pulling with a thousand strings. We sin because of indifference and negligence and heap new guilt on the old original one. Our life is a chain of sin and expiation controlled by a destiny that can not be understood.

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.

There will come a day, when all the lies will collapse under their own weight, and truth will again triumph.

Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies. Aristocracy with the meaning – the best are ruling. Peoples do never govern themselves. That lunacy was concocted by liberalism. Behind its people’s sovereignty the slyest cheaters are hiding, who don’t want to be recognized.

Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a new creation operate in the hush beyond the noise of the day.

I appreciate the change associated with people’s growth, but I don’t like the changes in our lives. I came to Mumbai in 1945, so imagine my acceptance of the massive changes around. I have witnessed every kind of revolution.

I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles’ faces on it. It would be a collector’s item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.

Imagine what I would have done with my fire-breathing fists.

Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.

People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can’t get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.

A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he.

Books have been thought of as windows to another world of imagination.

What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.