The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.

A country is not only what it does but what it tolerates.

Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right.

Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, thats what were needing! Weve needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine oclock.

Each economy relies on the credit system, that is, on the erroneous assumption that the other will pay back money pumped.

One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic

The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.