The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation.

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

The onset of one religion can be resisted only by another.

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.