A functionary, when he really is nothing more than a functionary, is really a very dangerous gentleman.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

I love to see the sunshine on the wings of the Dragonflies... there is magic in it.

We didn't have sense enough to take care of it. Now it's torn. And the artist is dead.

It is the height of irony to prejudge someone of prejudice.

Zanuta looked into the face of the faithful courier. "I have conquered the world, but I have never killed a man.

As for the Sun mouse, I'm not a big multi-button mouse fan, because I just can't remember which button to push when. I rather like the Macintosh system of using four modifier keys with the mouse.

I've gone through a lot of the same things like Britney Spears. I just don't have a mug shot.

I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow.

Oh, to be home again, home again, home again! Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill!

Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I knew people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.

Football is a violent game. We are violent men.