Society and the World

I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions … more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.

I do not regard the procuring of peace as a matter in which we should play the role of arbiter between different opinions … more that of an honest broker who really wants to press the business forward.

Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong, [it is] a geographical concept.

Not worth the healthy bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.

We will not go to Canossa.

We will not go to Canossa.

Politics is the art of the possible.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

PEACE , n . In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.

HISTORY , n . An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

BATTLE , n . A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

BATTLE , n . A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

CONSERVATIVE , n . A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.

ALLIANCE , n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pocket that they cannot separately plunder a third.

I [Krishna] am all-powerful Time which destroys all things, and I have come here to slay these men. Even if thou does not fight, all the warriors facing thee shall die. ch. 11, v. 32; see Oppenheimer 253:17

The question is not, Can they reason? nor,

All punishment is mischief: all punishment in itself is evil.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

STREETS FLOODED. PLEASE ADVISE. message sent on arriving in Venice

In America there are two classes of travel—first class, and with children.

Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight,

Whatever happens we have got