Als Quotes - Page 8

A criminal is someone without the capital to incorporate

It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.

Togetherness, passion, laughter, faith, trust, and jealousy are the essential ingredients of love

Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate

There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.

The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

If you gave me a fresh carnation, I would only crush its tender petals.

The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.

We mostly spend [our] lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do... forgetting that none of these verbs have any ultimate significance, except so far as they are transcended by and included in , the fundamental verb, to Be.

I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results. The final aim and reason of all music is nothing other than the glorification of God and the refreshment of the spirit.

It is a fact that under equal conditions, large-scale battles and whole wars are won by troops which have a strong will for victory, clear goals before them, high moral standards, and devotion to the banner under which they go into battle.

It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else . . . you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.

The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.

The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.

Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.

Winning Forever is not about the final score; it's about competing and striving to be the best. If you are in this pursuit, then you're already winning.

We have castrated society through fear and intimidation. Its manhood exists only in combination with a feminine outward appearance. Being so neutered, the populace has become docile and easily ruled. As all geldings in nature, their thoughts are not involved with the concerns of the future and their posterity, but only with the present toil and the next meal.

At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.

No one will ever kill me, they wouldn't dare

The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient

Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals

In the time of Jesus the mount of transfiguration was on the way to the cross. In our day the cross is on the way to the mount of transfiguration. If you would be on the mountain. you must consent to pass over the road to it.