History is a tragegy, not a morality tale.

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

A good liar must have a good memory.

There are days when I miss my old convictions as if they were an amputated limb. But in general I feel better, and no less radical, and you will feel better too, I guarantee, once you leave hold of the doctrinaire and allow your chainless mind to do its own thinking.

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.