"Mother Night" Quotes

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

I think of the fate of the Jews. No two people in the world could have been more dissimilar. But now they are more alike than they ever were before.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

This is the only story of mine whose moral I know. I don't think it's a marvelous moral; I simply happen to know what it is: We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.

The moral of the story is that the bad guys always lose eventually. They may have a few good years, a good run, but they always lose in the end.

I was a Nazi, and there's no good thing you can say about a Nazi, except that there are worse things.

The flat psychological truth is that most of the time, people are what they pretend to be.

I have never seen a more sublime demonstration of the totalitarian mind, a mind which might be likened unto a system of gears whose teeth have been filed off at random.