Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the compromising of extremes in order to achieve that notorious half loaf which the passionate and the outraged never find sufficient.

I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.

Which other major religion is based on the Godhead incarnate being whipped, tacked to a cross, stabbed? Only the Marquis de Sade could have made up a sicker religion. It's no wonder that those brought up in such a culture hate life and enjoy inflicting pain. All societies are sick but some are sicker than others. Christian societies are certainly the sickest.

Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard.

The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.

As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.