One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
All religions have been made by men.
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
An army marches on its stomach.
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
