Elias Canetti Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.”

“People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.”

“Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.”

“Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.”

“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.”

“All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.”

“His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.”

“Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.”

“Most religions do not make men better, only warier.”