I've noticed your hostility towards him... I ought to have guessed you were friends.

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

Here we have a saying: a good friend is someone who visits you when you are in prison. But a really good friend is someone who comes to hear your lectures.

With sociology one can do anything and call it work

Life is a crisis - so what!

But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don't recognize that, then that's the supreme kind of cruelty. Everyone shares someone else's fate to some extent.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.