We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made us acutely aware, govern deeply the whole process of perception.

The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.

The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price.