When war comes, reason is regarded as treason.

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

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale.

All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

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

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.

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.