The most disgusting human trait is bias, because it typically leads to propaganda, hate and violence.

The most disgusting human trait is bias because it ends of leading to propaganda, hate and violence.

It's one thing to stick to your guns. It's quite another to hold those guns to the heads of your citizens.

It is easier to stand in front of a bullet than it is to stand up to the world.

Governments don't spy on you for your protection, they spy on you to see if you're planning a revolt.

When we feel weak, we drop our heads on the shoulders of others. Don't get mad when someone does that. Be honored. For that person trusted you enough to, even if subtly, ask you for help.

Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.

Fair weather cometh out of the north.

The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical.

It's a different story because guess what, the kid is only 28 years old, 28. He's not his dad, not his grandpa. He's 28 years old.

If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.

In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage.

Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.

The principal mechanism for convergence at the international as well as the domestic level is the diffusion of knowledge.