Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils.

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

To be a child is something one learns, as one learns the names of rivers or the kings of France. Childhood, for a child, is a sort of falseness, woodenness, st…

I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets.

One might think that a period which, in a space of fifty years, uproots, enslaves, or kills seventy million human beings should be condemned out of hand. But i…

I am not addressing my own people, nor my fellow citizens of the holy Romans, but those who are now become citizens of demons by reason of their evil works. Th…

Whether they were bank directors or mental cases, the people who were loaded on those trains meant nothing to me. It was really none of my business.