No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable.

Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.

Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim.