You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal relationship between them, nor does the resulting quotient have any necessary relationship to anything in the real world.

You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you down.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with the time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.

All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?

The political mirage of something for nothing, from leaders who 'care,' has ruined many a nation.

The real culprits are those who created a system that makes it dangerous to work and safe to loaf.