Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures.

The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want.

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel is good.

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

The news and the truth are not the same thing.

If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.