Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.
It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.
A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.