Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it.

In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization.

Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by an unbeliever.

The crucial distinction between systems...was no longer ideological. The main political difference was between those who did, and those who did not, believe that the citizen could -- or should -- be the property of the state.

If anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about America the United States as the great country of the future, of freedom and equality and a good life for the working man, and a country of revolution and emancipation, and of Russia as the great country of despotism, backwardness, savagery and superstition.

A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.

The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity