Quotes

A true man hates no one.

There is a sleeping giant (China). Let him sleep. If he wakes, he will shake the world.

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is to that which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

On Judgement Day the Doctors will have more lives to answer for than even we Generals.

Cairo contains a multitude of the finest mosques in the world.

[to Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand] You are shit in a silk stocking.

Success is the most convincing talker in the World.

There is no more good-natured, but also no more gullible people than the German. I never had to sow discord among them. All I had to do was unstretch my nets, and they would run in like a shy game. They choked each other, and they thought they were doing their duty. No other people on earth is more foolish. No lie can be concocted crudely enough: the Germans believe it. For a slogan given to them, they persecuted their countrymen with greater bitterness than their real enemies.