where everybody is guilty, nobody 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.

I can't be a pessimist because I'm alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter.

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I started as a writer and when I sent my demos out everyone wanted to know who was singing and if that person wanted a record deal.

Breaking America's oil addiction would not lead to a future of sackcloth and ashes.

I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music

Discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it. Discipline is knowing what you're supposed to do and doing it as best you can.

Always go hard and fast enough so that when you hit the ditch you can pull out the other side.

We become forgetful of the ego when we think of the body as dedicated to the service of others - the body with which most complacently we identify the ego.

I slowly realized that perfectionism just not that important. What's more important is to try to love the people around you. Whatever that means at a particular time is the best you can do.

A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated.