Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.

Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive pattern upon them.

Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained.

There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.

The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose and for someone else to pay when things go wrong.

Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that . . . everything is the same, nothing is better. This is as barbaric and untruthful a doctrine as has yet emerged from the fertile mind of man.

A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do.