Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.

Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too.

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery.