Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them.

You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny.

The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They are both absolutely right.

It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them.

History, having destroyed the religion as the opium of the people, now requires that they be given a taste of the real stuff.

Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one ... So long as one sees killing as wrong there is no need to waste time with the deterrent argument, since it would be nonsense to try to prevent a theoretical evil in the future by perpetrating an actual one in the present.