It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it were on your side and not theirs.

Don't bother explaining--I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.

People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People who manage to hate only in abstracts are the ones worth having for your friends.

Christ, what an imagination I've got!

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I knew people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.

Like living creatures, automobiles expired when their environment became saturated with their own excreta. We ourselves are living creatures. We don't want the same to happen to us.