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

The very phrase ‚foreign affairs‘ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

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.

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

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. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.

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

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

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

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There’s no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

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

If we weren’t all crazy, we’d just go insane.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

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

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

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

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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

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

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

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

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

I won’t belong to any organization that would have me as a member.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

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

You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.

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.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Industry need not wish.

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

I’m not an expert on the arms race.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

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

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.