I remain just one thing, and one thing only — and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.
Fanaticism turns into a means of salvation, enthusiasm into epileptic ecstasy, politics becomes an opiate for the masses, a proletarian eschatology; and reason veils her face.
Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.
Either one lives for politics or one lives off politics.[Entweder: man lebt für die Politik, – oder aber von der Politik.]
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
All political structures use force, but they differ in the manner in which they use or threaten to use it against other political organizations.[Alle politischen Gebilde sind Gewaltgebilde. Aber Art und Maß der Anwendung oder Androhung von Gewalt nach außen, anderen gleichartigen Gebilden gegenüber, spielt für Struktur und Schicksal politischer Gemeinschaften eine spezifische Rolle.]
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on—have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear—what remains? Nature remains.
