You can't have occupation and human rights.

Those who want to be offended don't have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them.

It's normally agreed that the question 'How are you?' doesn't put you on your oath to give a full or honest answer.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

The Russians are going to be expansionist whether we [USA] provoke them to it or not. Russians keep saying that we're trying to encircle them. In what sense does the independence of Kosovo, a land-locked province, former Yugoslavia, with no common border with Russia, threaten Russia with encirclement? This is insulting. In what sense does the independence of Georgia constitute an encirclement? What we are facing, and we may as well give it its right name, is what I called it earlier, a chauvinistic, theocratic in part, xenophobic Russian imperialism.

One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.

Ruthless and arrogant though power can appear, it is only ever held by mere mammals who excrete and yearn, and who suffer from insomnia and insecurity. These mammals are also necessarily vain in the ­extreme, and often wish to be liked almost as much as they desire to be feared.