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Quotes by Hungarian Authors
"And, not only in Budapest. I worked very closely with a very powerful government organization, which shall remain unidentified, to develop the mass marketed version of the Cube."
"Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us."
"I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?"
"Now, after the Cube, I still don't have any plans to make anything like it."
"Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit."
"I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country."
"But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees."
"There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words."
"To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship that is important to all of us in North America."
"The only things you regret are the things you don't do."
"Truly we have had enough experience with sufferance and protection which could be revoked at will. Consequently, the only reasonable Course of action is to work for publicly legalized guarantees."
"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."
"Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one."
"True creativity often starts where language ends."
"I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness."
"An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others."
"Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down."
"I know nothing about sex, because I was always married."
"Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child."
"I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life."
"Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others."
"Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics."
"Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully."
"Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter."
"The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day."
"How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public."
"I hope we'll be able to solve these problems before we leave."
"I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it."
"It is chiefly in New York that I feel induced to urge this, because New York is, by innumerable ties, connected with Europe - more connected than several parts of Europe itself."
"Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education."
"The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies."
"Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice."
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