152 Quotes by Elias Canetti

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

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

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.

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.

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.

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

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

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

Most religions do not make men better, only warier.