Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.
Every work of art depicts an aspect of reality.
In this country, you never pull the emergency brake, even when there is an emergency. It is imperative that the trains run on schedule.
It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.
To not be afraid in our world is the message that doesn’t derive from reason, but maybe from this mysterious capacity given to humans which we call – not without a little embarrassment – faith.
There is also a reasonable tolerance: reason tolerates the reasonable. It is, however, almost tautological to call this ‘tolerance’ any longer, as it becomes a matter of course.
We can’t afford the wrath of Heaven. We survived a deluge by the skin of our teeth, but an economic crisis would be disastrous.
That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.
It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.
It is easy to kill when you don’t see your victim.
Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it.
A writer doesn’t solve problems. He allows them to emerge.
For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.
Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.
Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.
Human life is beyond comprehension.
For a person who is dying only eternity counts.
A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.