History is lenient with the vicious and powerful victims of tyrants still more vicious and powerful.
Sep 272019
Sep 262019
It isn’t tolerance unless you disapprove.
Sep 252019
It is less important, now, to have something to say than someone to listen.
Sep 242019
Ignorance, cultivated with sufficient rigor, is bliss.
Sep 232019
In hell the default setting is always On.
Sep 202019
It is the quack, needing protective coloration, who affirms most zealously the principles of his profession.
Sep 192019
The people whose intelligence is argued over are, as a class, more intelligent than the people who argue over it.
Sep 182019
If no man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money, then world literature is almost entirely the province of blockheads.
Sep 172019
The subtle tempter praises mediocrity to attack excellence, and deviance to attack normality.
Sep 162019
Merciful regimes kill the troublesome without insisting on reeducating them first.