People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression, but also for enthusiastic justifications for slavery, persecution, abandonment of small children, torture, and genocide... Moreover, religion enshrined hierarchy, authority, and inequality... It was the age of equality that brought about the disappearance of such religious appurtenances as the auto-da-fe and burning at the stake.

History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.

The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.