Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.

Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.

The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.

What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.

The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.

The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.

The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.

Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.

The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.

Directing the mind to stay in the present can be a formidable task.

Confidence is highly erotic.

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

The woman cries before the wedding the man afterward.

Selfless giving does not imply giving everything up - it's simply having a good time.

If we do not expect the unexpected, we will never find it.

A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse.

Every fool becomes a philosopher after ten days of rain, so I spare you the inside view of my heart.

The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court.

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.