“Religion is man-made to assist in controlling the weak minded individuals because during times of atrocity and despair they feel strength in numbers.”

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

I want to make my own life a masterpiece.

The End of Laissez-Faire (1926) might, so far as it goes, serve as a useful introduction to fascist economics. There is scarcely anything to object to in it and there is much to applaud.

We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

It’s good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins.

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

I have been a racist since 1921. I don’t know how they can think I’m imitating Hitler.

On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind. This confiscation, which continues with the utmost energy, has given satisfactory results.

Fascism recognises the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade-unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which diverent interests are coordinated and harmonised in the unity of the State.

The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy] can permit no compromises.

The state reserves the right to be the sole interpreter of the needs of society.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman

There is too much foolishness, too much lost motion. I have stopped the talk and the nonsense. I am a man of action. Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.

If you watch me during the game, I celebrate when we press the ball and it goes out.

I get a little bit emotional during a game!

It seems there always something coming up for me during Masters week, but that’s not an excuse to play good or bad golf.

Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.

The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric’s vocals.

In 1924, I became a Dozent in Gottingen and worked out the quantum mechanics during a holiday stay on Heligoland.