The great problem in political science is how to persuade the people to elect a government of which the theorist approves.
Feb 272013
Feb 262013
Defang a book by putting it on the syllabus, a painting by putting it in a museum, and a radical by putting him in the ministry.
Feb 252013
We are more like our contemporaries than we imagine, and less like our ancestors.
Feb 222013
Expertise makes one peremptory, but peremptoriness does not make one expert.
Feb 212013
The wise are all alike, but every fool is foolish in his own way.
Feb 202013
If it has never crossed your mind that you might be stupid, you are.
Feb 192013
The polite conversationalist, when interrupted by a monologue, smiles, and waits his turn, before resuming his own.
Feb 182013
We talk not to say something, but to show something.
Feb 152013
The American upper middle class has largely given up sex and alcohol in favor of litigation and insurance fraud.
Feb 142013
It hurts less to give up the luxury than the idea that you can afford it.