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

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

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.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

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

If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

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

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

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?

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

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

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

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

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

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

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.

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

I am not a televangelist.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

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

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

When I was researching my book ‚The 33 Strategies of War‘, I studied Napoleon extensively and I found myself wanting to ask Napoleon questions about things he did, and if was I interpreting his actions correctly.

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

There is no gambling like politics.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

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

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

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

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

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

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

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

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

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

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.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

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

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

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

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

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

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

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

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

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.

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

You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.