If there is no personal God, everything is permissablel, and if God exists, everthing is possible.

It is the low drive for sameness and the hatred of otherness that characterizes all forms of leftism, which inevitably are totalitarian.

Democratism and its allied herd movements, while remaining loyal to the principle of equality and identity, will never hesitate to sacrifice liberty.

For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.

People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way to their evil drives.

Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.

There is no such thing as a historical fatality there is only a historical nemesis which punishes those who have hesitated to act when action was still possible.

Generals, on the average, are far less bellicose than journalists or patriotic housewives: They know the horrors of a war and they dislike any break in the routine

For the genuine materialist there is no fundamental, but only a gradual, an “evolutionary” difference, between man and a pest, a noxious insect

You promote yourself every time you take on a new responsibility.

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals.

When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing.

I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.

We are in danger of developing a cult of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity.

The writing process is not just putting down one page after another-it's a lot of writing and then rewriting, restructuring the story, changing the way things come together.

There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it.

I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.