Next to bombing, rent control is the most effective technique so far known for destroying cities.

In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city - except for bombing.

The true test of a brilliant theory [is] what first is thought to be wrong is later shown to be obvious.

Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.

Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

God's love doesn't leave out Jews or Muslims or anyone.

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

Most liars can fool most people most of the time.

The ideas embodied in the New Deal Legislation were a compilation of those which had come to maturity under Herbert Hoover’s aegis. We all of us owed much to Hoover

People watch what you do more than listen to what you say.

If I am in Moscow for example and one night I decide to go out to my friend's house why should I come back at eight o'clock in the morning to my house to be checked?

What is concisely referred to as global warming, is a fatal mistake of the present time.

But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.