The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system

The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system

As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.

Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.

Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy

N. S. Khrushchev established his supremacy in the U.S.S.R. after post-Stalinist alarums and excursions (1958-64). This admirable rough diamond, a believer in reform and peaceful coexistence, who incidentally emptied Stalin's concentration camps, dominated the international scene in the next few years. He was also perhaps the only peasant boy ever to rule a major state

The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity.