The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.

A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.

The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

A state is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all the force within the community, to make war, to make peace, to conscript life, to tax, to establish and disestablish property, to define crime, to punish disobedience, to control education, to supervise the family, to regulate personal habits, and to censor opinions. The modern state claims all of these powers, and, in the matter of theory, there is no real difference in the size of the claim between communists, fascists, and Democrats.

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.