"Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it."

"Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon."

"The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars."

"In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times."

"The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error."

"Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste."

"Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life"

"What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?"

"Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are."

"He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news."

"People who understand everything get no stories."

"Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels."

"All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living."

"Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life."

"What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?"

"Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good."

"We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians."

"Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves."

"Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes"

"Why be a man when you can be a success."

"When something seems ‘the most obvious thing in the world’ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up."

"For what's the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?"

"If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats."

"As crimes pile up, they become invisible."

"What is robbing a bank compared to founding one?"

"It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk."

"For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again."

"One must live well to know what living is."

"Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer."

"Happy is the people who need no heroes."

"What are you working on?” Mr. K. was asked. Mr. K. replied: “I’m having a hard time; I’m preparing my next mistake."

"Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels"

"I want to go with the one I love. I do not want to calculate the cost. I do not want to think about whether it's good. I do not want to know whether he loves me. I want to go with whom I love..."

"Thinking is one of the greatest pleasures of the human race."

"Such a lot is won when even a single man gets to his feet and says No"

"Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers."

"When the waters poured into Atlantis, the rich men still screamed for their slaves."

"Art is not a mirror to hold up to reality, rather a hammer to shape it."

"Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity."

"The wickedness of the world is so great, you have to keep running so your legs won't be stolen from under you!"

"For once you must try not to shirk the facts: Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts."

"Every time you name yourself, you name someone else."

"He thought in other heads, and in his own, others besides himself thought"

"Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there."

"Grub first, then ethics."

"Sitting and sedition don't mix."

"In the dark times will there be singing? Yes. There will be singing about the dark times."

"I'm teaching all the time. When am I to learn?"

"I won't let you spoil my war for me. Destroys the weak, does it? Well, what does peace do for'em, huh? War feeds its people better."

"He was weak on philosophy and an excellent driver, but his driving was a lot more dangerous than his philosophy."