Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
Elias Canetti
One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
Elias Canetti
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
Elias Canetti
As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
Elias Canetti
Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
Elias Canetti
Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.
Elias Canetti
The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.
Elias Canetti
Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
Elias Canetti
He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
Elias Canetti
His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.
Elias Canetti
It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
Elias Canetti
Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
Elias Canetti
A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
Elias Canetti
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
Elias Canetti
One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
Elias Canetti
People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.
Elias Canetti
People's fates are simplified by their names.
Elias Canetti
Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
Elias Canetti
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
Elias Canetti
Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.
Elias Canetti
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