Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

I don’t think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

I’m highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don’t feel in tune with British politics.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.

The good is the beautiful.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Everybody is idealistic when you’re a kid.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

The Medici created and destroyed me.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.