The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity.

Honest history is the weapon of freedom.

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.

The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.

Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.

In a series of events, all of which had been a bit thick, this, in his opinion, achieved the maximum of thickness.

Pride does not only come with great responsibility. It is buy one get one free. Great responsibility will require great resourcefulness.

Seriously, when you see a new book fresh on the stand and in big letters it says “A Million Copies Sold, ” did you ever wonder who bought them?

In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.

I finally discovered something - it's all about Jesus.

Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.

Stop trying to control everything and just let go! LET GO!

I give them the head, choke them, hit them in the balls.You'rehting, not playing the piano, you know

The universal cosmic process was not created by any god or man.

Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.