Society and the World

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Neutrinos, they are very small

The innocents abroad.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

All kings is mostly rapscallions.

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man’s the workman in it.

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

I didn’t fire him [General MacArthur] because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was, but that’s not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail.

A statesman is a politician who’s been dead 10 or 15 years.

It’s a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.

It’s a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.

All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

You [the Mensheviks] are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on—into the dustbin of history!

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

Experience shows that the most dangerous moment for a bad government is generally that in which it sets about reform.

Their starting point is different, and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems to be marked out by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe.

Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

It takes two to speak the truth,—one to speak, and another to hear.

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate oddfellow society.