Do you know what is so awful about these endless battles over rights? There is no room left for poetry.
I have been in the minority all my life, Your Holiness. In fact, I belong to such a small minority that I am the only member.
The sins we commit in the past are the same ones we’ll commit in the future. Because man is like God. He never changes.
Criminal organizations are faster because they don’t forgive inefficiency.
True punishment is served not in prison, but in one’s soul.[to Sofia]
The collective imagination is more powerful than the atomic bomb.
I forgot to confide in you another stratagem for running the Church: never reveal your sources. And if for some reason you have to, make them up.[to Cardinal Gutierrez]
Fanaticism and obtuseness are one and the same thing.
You can weaken the strong. I’ve been doing that my whole life. But there is one thing you can not do. Give strength to the fragile.[to Sofia]
What do you want to do, Bauer? Assassinate the pope? There would be no point. He would just rise again.
I would like a pope that was me, because only I am capable of understanding you.
I am unacquainted with addictive behavior. Except regarding Napoli.
