The secret is that when you’ve been pitched head first into hell you just write about it.
The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.
I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who accuse me of this do not know how to read.
On our crowded planet there are no longer any internal affairs!
Call no day happy ’til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead.
A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.
In our age, when technology is gaining control over life, when material well-being is considered the most important goal, when the influence of religion has been weakened everywhere in the world, a special responsibility lies upon the writer.
One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human biengs.
The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it.
The task must be to banish from mankind’s thought the idea that anybody has the right to use force against righteousness, against justice, against mutual agreements.
We have to condemn the very idea that some people have the right to repress others.
The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.
It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance of their effects. All the more unpredictable and surprising to us will be the course of future events.
Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.
Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off.
It takes a fool to rush off to war!
Any fool can bomb a train, but just try sorting out the mess.
We have ourselves to save.
A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh.
Surrender one hair, and you’ll end up beardless.