I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses.
Whenever I stand up for the German peasant, it is for the sake of the Volk. I have neither ancestral estate nor manor… I believe I am the only statesman in the world who does not have a bank account. I hold no stock, I have no shares in any companies. I do not draw any dividends.
Simply put: we don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services.
The very word "Christianity" is a misunderstanding — in truth, there was only one Christian, and he died on the cross.
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed.
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier, simpler.
God is dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. — And we — we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.
He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Our laws force women into celibacy on the one hand, or abortion on the other. Both conditions are declared by eminent medical authorities to be injurious to health.
Birth control is the first important step woman must take toward the goal of her freedom. It is the first step she must take to be man’s equal. It is the first step they must both take toward human emancipation.
We had gotten over the feeling that one experience was going to make you enlightened forever. We saw that it wasn't going to be that simple.
I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people… To me, that’s what the emerging game is all about.
The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways — I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
That little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Jesus Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man — when I could get it — and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?
We are struggling for a uniting word but the good news is that we have a uniting movement. It is called HeForShe. I am inviting you to step forward, to be seen, and to ask yourself, if not me, who, if not now when.