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

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

The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

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

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what’s evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We’re less sure about what is good. There’s sort of good, good enough, could be better – but absolute good is a little harder to define.

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

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it’s popular, it’s not culture.

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

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

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.

Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

History, a distillation of rumour.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

If we go on your iPhone and go to the dictionary and look up ‚humble,‘ 80 per cent of the definition is negative. It’s a controlling word. It’s a way to control the masses and to control the sheep.

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 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.

All art is quite useless.

The universe is very large, and its boundaries are not known very well, but it is still possible to define some kind of a radius to be associated with it.

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

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

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

Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‚nirvana‘ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

‚I am‘ is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that ‚I do‘ is the longest sentence?

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

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

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

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

If you look at ‚Blade Runner,‘ it’s been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

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.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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

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

There’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

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

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

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

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

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

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

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

Dissents speak to a future age.

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

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.