Crosses and gallows - that deadly historic juxtaposition.

And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.

The future is an infinite succession of presents.

The rule of law does not do away with the unequal distribution of wealth and power, but reinforces that inequality with the authority of law. It allocates wealth and poverty in such calculated and indirect ways as to leave the victim bewildered.

Being fired has some of the advantages of dying without its supreme disadvantages. People say extra-nice things about you, and you get to hear them.

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.