“How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its free...” — E. T. A. Hoffmann Quote

“How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.”

“Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.”

“Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?”

“The ideal Prime Minister is one who requires no artificial image, but rather embodies care for the poor, celebrates plurality and steering the country of 1.4 billion with true love and commitment.”

“There are similarities with Angela Merkel, there are issues that separate us, and I'm showing that genuinely and authentically and won't create an artificial separation because it has something to do with character and attitude.”

“I don't do anything artificial. I don't do Botox or surgery.”