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Quotes by Hungarian Authors
"That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places."
"If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home."
"God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers."
"If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics."
"The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist."
"It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer."
"I can understand Communism, but not Socialism."
"In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally."
"I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power."
"I think a composer is always interested in his last work."
"In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity."
"I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything."
"It would be wrong to assume that one must stay with a research programme until it has exhausted all its heuristic power, that one must not introduce a rival programme before everybody agrees that the point of degeneration has probably been reached."
"There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down."
"It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me."
"And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry."
"The composers could no longer direct all performances in person, and so the responsibility of interpreting their works in the spirit in which they had been conceived was placed upon conductors."
"I know nothing about sex, because I was always married."
"The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed."
"Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics."
"Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place."
"If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly."
"Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence."
"President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests, and undermining American values."
"There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry."
"If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power."
"The spirit in which the offer was made must of necessity contribute to improving and alleviating the situation of the Jewish people without our renouncing one iota of the great principles upon which our movement is based."
"Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever."
"I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head."
"Philanthropic colonization is a failure. National colonization will succeed."
"The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years."
"In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution."
"I think there's a lot of merit in an international economy and global markets, but they're not sufficient because markets don't look after social needs."
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