A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

Tragedy is the difference between what is and what could have been.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

Human beings act intelligently only after they have exhausted the alternatives

It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.

Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.