My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.

There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats.

For all the flailing and huffing and puffing, there is a kind of fatality about the process of war-making and the excuses we find for it, the consolation of belligerence in politics.

Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.

Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.