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To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.
A story has been thought to its conclusion when it has taken its worst possible turn.
The content of physics is the concern of physicists, its effect the concern of all men.
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him
I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him.
Prior to the meeting, there was a prayer. In general, in the United States there was always praying.
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.
Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.
Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.
Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.
The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said.
News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.
Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.
There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.
We can't afford the wrath of Heaven. We survived a deluge by the skin of our teeth, but an economic crisis would be disastrous.
That there is also freedom in captivity, only a prisoner can claim. Coming from a prison guard, this statement would be blasphemy.
In this country, you never pull the emergency brake, even when there is an emergency. It is imperative that the trains run on schedule.
Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.
Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.
So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.
There is also a reasonable tolerance: reason tolerates the reasonable. It is, however, almost tautological to call this 'tolerance' any longer, as it becomes a matter of course.
Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it.
The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.
What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its hopes upon Heaven, it has everything to hope for from this earth.
Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.
For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.
Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.
The planet on which we live is poorly organized, many areas are overpopulated, others are reserved for a few, technology's potential is only in part realized, and most people are starving.
Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only without freedom,and grace in the thereafter only through the freedom of God.
To not be afraid in our world is the message that doesn't derive from reason, but maybe from this mysterious capacity given to humans which we call--not without a little embarrassment--faith.
The archetype of all humans, their ideal image, is the computer, once it has liberated itself from its creator, man. The computeris the essence of the human being. In the computer, man reaches his completion.
We are not cave dwellers anymore, we live in the age of technology. When someone needs a car, he does not need to build it. He can buy it. When someone needs a murder, he himself does not need to kill. He can order it.
Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
The individual protests against the world, but he doesn't get beyond protest, he is just a single protester. When he wants to be more than that, he has to counter power with power, he has to oppose the system with another system.
Politics at all times lead to bloody wars, and not only politics, but also religions as well as social and economic systems of alltimes are spattered with blood. Invariably the big ones devoured the little ones, and the little ones the tiny ones.
In the United States the whites speak well of the Blacks but think bad about them, whereas the Blacks talk bad and think bad aboutthe whites. Whites fear Blacks, because they have a bad conscience, and Blacks hate whites because they need not have a bad conscience.
As the Americans slaughter millions of turkeys every year for the celebration of their deliverance, the Indians, who should be celebrated as saviors, have long been slaughtered. There was even a time when a white man was paid a very decent price for every Indian scalp he could produce.