The revolutionary is nine parts hatred and envy of the oppressor, and one part sympathy and love for the oppressed.
Jan 152014
Jan 142014
To hate something properly you must have liked it once.
Jan 132014
Revolutions spare nothing but the machinery of the state at which they are ostensibly directed.
Jan 102014
Prose can hide every vice but vanity.
Jan 092014
No one remembers who lost the argument, only who lost his temper.
Jan 082014
Most people, on most matters, are not, in fact, entitled to an opinion.
Jan 072014
Clever is a great compliment to children and a gross insult to adults.
Jan 062014
“It was a culture,” the historian will write a century from now, “that found it necessary to invent the word ‘unironically.'”
Jan 032014
That no change is possible was the ancient superstition; that any change is possible is the modern one.
Jan 022014
Now that all have prizes, has everybody won?