Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.

Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

War remains the decisive human failure.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

But now, as throughout history, financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated.

The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great -- a little understood thing.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.