the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.

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.

You can't change people with love. It doesn't work that way.

He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.

Learn, believe and achieve!

I want to fall into the purity that is Day, soaking in his simple honesty, his heart that sits open and beating on his sleeve.

We part with tender relations stretching far behind us, that never can be exactly renewed, and with others dawning - yet before us.

I definitely think moving around helped shape me and has helped me be a better player.

When I walk off the field exhausted, drenched in sweat, knowing I pushed myself to the physical, mental, and emotional limits, there is no better feeling.

I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.

My feeling is that nuclear is a distraction. It stops us doing what we all know we need to do invest urgently in renewables.

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy