To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury.

If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination.

Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan.

To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury.

The role of third parties is to sting like a bee, then die.

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

The idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to men with profoundly disturbed minds. It is the use of paranoid modes of expression by more or less normal people that makes the phenomenon significant.