“The German people in its whole character is not warlike, but rather soldierly, that is, while they do not want war, they are not frightened by the thoughts of it.”

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

In a few days, newspapers can make a trivial incident in itself a dangerous issue that shakes the state, and it can also bring vital issues to the fore into oblivion, so that the public will soon forget them.

Be proud of your people when you don’t have to be ashamed of any of its social classes.

What luck for rulers that men do not think.

I respected my father, but I loved my mother.

Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.

Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself.

Why nationalize industry when you can nationalize the people?

I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker.

The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force.

Is it not a shame to leave the capabilities of a nation at the mercy of citizens who dispose of these capabilities lightly and shamelessly, as if they were playing cards.

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

God’s and beasts, that is what our world is made of.

Great liars are also great magicians.

What we suffer from today is an excess of education.

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

People know me through my characters. I don’t think they have any idea about the individual that I am. They know I am a director’s son, and I am married to an actress.

Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power.

Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

Her persona may be quiet, but her observation loud.

Cry Baby is a character so I think that the next album is going to be about a specific thing in her life or another place in her world. It’s going to be a bit deeper into a bigger picture.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece – by thought, choice, courage, and determination.

Every character, when it comes to a cinematic representation, gets complicated and layered. You are given a lot of dimensions than a single dimension to an individual. That’s the main difference between seeing something out of the window and seeing something on screen.