Quote #43

The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions - to destroy.

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  1. The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
  2. The future cannot come, for when it comes it's already past.
  3. One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the m…
  4. It is inexcuseable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
  5. I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
  6. Neither moral concepts nor art forms can expect to live forever. How much are we obliged to hold on to? Who can guarantee that 2 plus 2 don…
  7. People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
  8. Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build, too.

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