There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.