These are not free men in any rational and exact sense of the word.

But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.

With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

when true purpose calls, double mindedness, confusion and frustration come along.

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.

In France, older women are considered sensual, and they don't have to mask the lines and wrinkles and erase every sign of their life on earth to be attractive and get laid.

Live to learn . . . forget . . . and learn again.

One cannot live for ever by ignoring the price of coffins.

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

I'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once.

They're always saying I'm a capitalistic pig. I suppose I am. But... it's good for my drumming.

Everything we say about other people is really about ourselves.

I feel like people might be slightly less inclined to hate me as much as they did in the past, and I think part of that is selling fewer records.