Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

bureaucracy, safely repeating today what it did yesterday, rolls on as ineluctably as some vast computer, which, once penetrated by error, duplicates it forever.

The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.

The Germans could not get over the perfidy of it. It was unbelievable that the English, having degenerated to the stage where suffragettes heckled the Prime Minister and defied the police, were going to fight.

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

When people don't have an objective, there's much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting.