Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you

As a rule, the most dangerous ideas are not the ones that divide people but those on which they agree.

The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isn't part of the local atmosphere.

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

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

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.

To be great is to assume great concerns.