There's an old American saying that says you can't beat somebody with nobody.

Defying History and Theory: The United States as the 'Last Remaining Superpower,'

There was no one to blame but the mighty, ruthless stranger. Thus was complexity reduced to demonology, which is a defining feature of anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, or, indeed, any "anti-ism.

Like madness is the glory of this life.

It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates into demagoguery.

Anybody who doesn't like this book is healthy

Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell.

Pray inwardly, even if you do not enjoy it. It does good, though you feel nothing. Yes, even though you think you are doing nothing.

If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once.

The United States has worse income inequality than Nigeria.

I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated. But there was something about these pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly glorious.

You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.