The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.
If someone calls me vain and mean, I know that he trusts me and has something to confess to me.
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
In case of doubt, decide in favor of what is correct.
Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.
Most people only do what they are asked to do; success comes to those who do a little more.
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.
Sound opinions are valueless. What matters is who holds them.
There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.
Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.
I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might improve if I viewed allsides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and to be able to use one's prejudice as an excuse.
To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.
I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.
What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.
How do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists, then believe what they read.
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
There are writers who can express in as little as twenty pages what I occasionally need as many as two for.
Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman.
I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.
A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.
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