To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.

Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.

The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.

What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.

The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.

The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.

The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.

Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.

The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.

Cliches are the viruses that infect your writing with diseases.

When it comes to money, ignorance is NOT bliss. What you don't know CAN hurt you.

Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.

A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling into counsel.

For an actor, it is better to play well (or even not so well) in a bad film, than to not play at all.

I don't like to look a man in the eye.

My God, what do we want? What does any human being want?

I still tour like a man possessed, because I am.

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.