Civilization has always existed only in enclaves, and whoever would universalize it is its unwitting enemy.
Nov 052014
Nov 042014
Ideologies must be classed not by what they intend to build but by what they intend to destroy.
Nov 032014
Hard cases make bad law, and good law makes hard cases.
Oct 312014
The joy of money lies less in what one does than in what one might do.
Oct 302014
Where some has failed, more rarely succeeds.
Oct 292014
Some who earn thousands of times your income don’t deserve it, which is bad; and some do, which is worse.
Oct 282014
The worse the government, the longer the speeches.
Oct 272014
If suffering ennobles, does joy degrade?
Oct 242014
People are confused; it does not follow that the universe is paradoxical.
Oct 232014
If you aren’t supposed to use people, what do you do with them?