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

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.

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

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

In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.

The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences