There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.

There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.