If you make people think they are thinking, they will love you. If you really make them think, they will hate you.

When Fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in an American flag.

Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.

I know not if I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or if I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Prima la musica, poi le parole (first the music, then the words)

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

Drama is imagination limited by logic. Mathematics is logic limited by imagination.

I feel sorry for people who do not drink. When they wake up in the morning it is as good as they are going to feel all day.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.