The only form of action open to a child is to break something or strike someone, its mother or another child; it cannot cause things to happen in the world.

Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the state.

...the tourist Venice is Venice.

In morals as in politics anarchy is not for the weak.

What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?

A politician or political thinker who calls himself a political realist is usually boasting that he sees politics, so to speak, in the raw; he is generally a proclaimed cynic and pessimist who makes it his business to look behind words and fine speeches for the motive. This motive is always low.

It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.