Every work of art depicts an aspect of reality.
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
Today’s Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.
The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.
I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him.
There are thoughts we must not think.
It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.
The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity.
Nothing that has been thought can ever be taken back.
Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.
Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
Power is paradoxical.
Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.
There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.
Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
The archetype of all humans, their ideal image, is the computer, once it has liberated itself from its creator, man. The computeris the essence of the human being. In the computer, man reaches his completion.
Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand.