Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

Study men, not historians.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

It’s not simply to say, ‚My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,‘ but the greatest dissents do become court opinions.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

If you judge, investigate.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

Some people are making music just for numbers and views.

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

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

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

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

All art is quite useless.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against – Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

Industry need not wish.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

As a Western, ‚The Magnificent Seven‘ was a pretty good film. I don’t think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as ‚Seven Samurai.‘

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

The racing is quite boring, sometimes. It’s hard to see how it pulls in fans.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s.

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

There is no gambling like politics.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

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

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

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

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

History is more or less bunk.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

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.