Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains.

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas a moral and aesthetic nightmare whether or not the days are prosperous?

Cheap booze is a false economy.