Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.
Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it.
Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.
A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn.
A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.
A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control.
Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.
The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.
People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies.
Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.
Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.
This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?
There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.
There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.