Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile.

Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed such pathological upbeatness.

You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.

The government spokesman announces that there is no truth in the charges of widespread corruption within the Cabinet; nobody believes him; he knows that nobody believes him, we know that he knows it, and he knows it too.

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can be lethal.