Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

He who can be, and therefore is, another’s, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

I don’t think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.

I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

Industry need not wish.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

History should be written as philosophy.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

The law is reason, free from passion.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.