“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.”

“Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.”

“The mind supplies the idea of a nation but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.”

“If man is not ready to risk his life where is his dignity?”

“To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.”

“There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.”

“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”

“They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.”

“A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.”

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”

“So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be e...”

“Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.”