The word 'idiot' comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women follow their fate through a darkness deep as that cast by malformed cells in the brain. It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy: men are so obsessed by public affairs that they see the world as by moonlight, which shows the outlines of every object but not the details indicative of their nature.

I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.

The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.

Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.