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

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

Study men, not historians.

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

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Dissents speak to a future age.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

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

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

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

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

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

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.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

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

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

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.

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

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

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

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as ‚failed states.‘

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

But if you – if what – the reports are true, what they’re saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that’s going to increase our costs, we knew that.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

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.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Some people are making music just for numbers and views.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

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.

If anyone offers conjectures about the truth of things from the mere possibility of hypotheses, I do not see by what stipulation anything certain can be determined in any science, since one or another set of hypotheses may always be devised which will appear to supply new difficulties.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It’s self-defense. It’s patriotism.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

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

The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

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.