Under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.

A teacher can kindle your mind and let you memorize information, but true education is often self-education.

I love football in the rain. That is what it's all about.

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

A bathroom should be sterile and beautiful and functional. It should exude Japanese-style purity.

Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy.. ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens.

Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury.

I've been a tomboy my whole life. But then you get older, you get married, you soften up.

All religions are good 'in principle' - but unfortunately this abstract Good has only rarely prevented their practitioners from behaving like bastards.