An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real…

the Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry

How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem at a distance of a few million miles.

"We were making the future," he said, "and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!"

If it is proper to ’reconstitute’ a Jewish State which has not existed for two thousand years, why not go back another thousand years end reconstitute the Canaanite state? The Canaanites, unlike the Jews, are still there.

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn.