History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you’re going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins.

The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no limit to the ingenuity of science and no limit to the deviltry of human beings.

The only social justice movements worth fighting for are the struggles for justice where you lose, you lose, you lose- until you win.

Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and its future.

Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.

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