How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.

There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.

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Uma mulher é, às vezes, uma alternativa satisfatória à masturbação. Claro que ela exige muito mais imaginação de nossa parte.

War: first, one hopes to win;
then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering;
in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

Daß die Meinungsfreiheit eine Errungenschaft des Liberalismus ist, sollte nie vergessen lassen, daß sie auch der Rotz der Kultur ist.

There are two kinds of writers. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and body; with the second, they match each other like body and clothes.

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The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.

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The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.

Die Moralheuchler sind nicht darum hassenswert, weil sie anders tun, als sie bekennen, sondern weil sie anders bekennen, als sie tun. Wer die Moralheuchelei verdammt, muß peinlich darauf bedacht sein, daß man ihn nicht für einen Freund der Moral halte, die jene doch wenigstens insgeheim verraten. Nicht der Verrat an der Moral ist sträflich, sondern die Moral. Sie ist Heuchelei an und für sich. Nicht daß jene Wein trinken, sollte enthüllt werden, sondern daß sie Wasser predigen.

A “seducer” who boasts of initiating women into the mystery of love is like a stranger who arrives at a railroad station and offers to show the sights to a tourist guide.

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

Nachdem er sich in der anarchistischen Partei unmöglich gemacht hatte, blieb ihm nichts mehr übrig, als ein nützliches Mitglied der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft zu werden und in die Sozialdemokratie einzutreten.

The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.