“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.”

“Scientific research is based on the assumption that all events, including the actions of mankind, are determined by the laws of nature.”

“Ethical axioms are founded and tested not very differently from the axioms of science.”

“I do not believe we can have any freedom at all in the philosophical sense, for we act not only under external compulsion but also by inner necessity.”

“As it is, the hardly bought achievements of the machine age in the hands of our generation are as dangerous as a razor in the hands of a three-year-old child.”

“Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work.”

“Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.”

“Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”

“Force always attracts men of low morality.”

“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters”