If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected - those, precisely, who need the law's protection most! - and listens to their testimony.

A devotion to humanity is... too easily equated with a devotion to a Cause, and Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty.

In order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that you now scarcely know you have.

It is astonishing that in a country so devoted to the individual, so many people should be afraid to speak.

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.