There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me--