Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

Consistency is a virtue for trains.

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.