The revolutionary treats the oppressed as the defense lawyer treats the client: under no circumstances are they to speak for themselves.
Aug 092013
Aug 082013
One is asked to be reasonable and expected to be moderate.
Aug 072013
Humanity for the first time is burdened with a vast proletariat of literate, ambitious, and demanding people who can’t really do anything.
Aug 062013
Certain qualities — skepticism, iconoclasm, willpower — are fixed in quantity, and must be apportioned wisely.
Aug 052013
All people at all times have annals; but only some at a few times have history.
Aug 022013
Certain ideas are so corrosive that they eat through even themselves.
Aug 012013
Old people should be heard and not seen.
Jul 312013
We weigh nothing so judiciously as a compliment.
Jul 302013
Revolution is seeded by abuse and watered by reform.
Jul 292013
Taste is quality divided by expense.