If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to their similarities.
Paul JohnsonThe most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.
Paul JohnsonThe Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.
Paul JohnsonIt is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion, and contrasting the smooth-running Soviet planned economy with the breakdown in America, he was secretly exploiting the frantic necessities of the Soviet leaders to form the basis of one of America's most splendid public collections
Paul Johnson