You have to take the long view. First, when Moses came down from Mt. Sinai, man has already progressed to the point where a commandment against cannibalism was no longer necessary. And, second, it's like pissing on a boulder. For the first few thousand years, you don't see any effect. But after that, you start to see a definite impact.

All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out.

When war comes, reason is regarded as treason.

If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

Rich people march on Washington every day.

If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.