Well, demonization itself can help ... to provide an alibi. You succumb to the Devil incarnate, and as a result you're not guilty yourself.

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.

Your mother won a special reward, " she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.

Silence gives notice to the music of the senses that would otherwise not be heard.

Are you taking my hat hostage?

Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

It's been encouraging to hear the pope talking about climate change and take it away from being a political issue to being one of survival.

I was adrift in a sea of questions and if answers were lifeboats, I was in imminent danger of drowning.

If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.

Builders need to take their preeminent position back from the traders for the economy of the future to flourish.

The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.

There's a danger zone if you take yourself too seriously. It's a terrible trap to fall into. I think it's the death of comedy.