The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.