It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

History is made by masses of people. One man, or ten men, don't start the earthquakes and don't stop them either. Only hero worshipers and ignorant historians think they do.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.