“All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.”

A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.

Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.

Great men have great dogs.

A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.

Man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer.

I am bored. The great things are done. The German Reich is made.

I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.

Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

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

Government is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the most strightforward shit in the world.

Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.

Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.

Hounds follow those who feed them.

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have.

The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.

To cease to think creatively is to cease to live.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.