A Year of Quotations (2025)

Take our politicians: they’re a bunch of yo-yos.

October 19, 2025

4 months ago

When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody deed.

October 20, 2025

4 months ago

Freedom & Justice

Universal suffrage [i.e., votes for all adult men and women] is the government of a house by its nursery.

October 21, 2025

4 months ago

Philosophy & History

The revolutionary spirit is mightily convenient in this: that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas.

October 22, 2025

4 months ago

Freedom & Justice

Minorities…are almost always in the right.

October 23, 2025

4 months ago

Governments last as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

October 24, 2025

4 months ago

[On dealing with the Royal Family] I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

October 25, 2025

4 months ago

Democracy

Democracy becomes a government of bullies, tempered by editors.

October 26, 2025

4 months ago

Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live

October 27, 2025

4 months ago

Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by which they have once won office.

October 28, 2025

4 months ago

[Definition of] Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

October 29, 2025

4 months ago

If you are involved in important affairs or seeking power, you must exaggerate your successes.

October 30, 2025

4 months ago

Society

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

October 31, 2025

4 months ago

Governance

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

November 1, 2025

4 months ago

Governance

In the life of any government, however safe its majority, there comes a moment when the social movements

November 2, 2025

4 months ago

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity

November 3, 2025

4 months ago

Philosophy & History

One of the uses of history is to free us from a falsely imagined past.

November 4, 2025

4 months ago

Governance

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master.

November 5, 2025

4 months ago

Anybody that wants the presidency so much that he’ll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

November 6, 2025

4 months ago

Nothing in politics is ever as good or as bad as it first appears.

November 7, 2025

4 months ago

Europeans often ask and Americans do not often explain, how it happens that this great office [the presidency]

November 8, 2025

4 months ago

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

November 9, 2025

4 months ago

War & Peace

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

November 10, 2025

3 months ago

Society

No one is decently treated in poor clothes.

November 11, 2025

3 months ago

Communication & Education

Blessed is he who expects no gratitude, for he shall not be disappointed.

November 12, 2025

3 months ago

Humming, Hawing and Hesitation are the three Graces of contemporary Parliamentary oratory.

November 13, 2025

3 months ago

Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.

November 14, 2025

3 months ago

He preferred to be rather than to seem good.

November 15, 2025

3 months ago

Culture

All ceremonial is ridiculous unless it is perfect.

November 16, 2025

3 months ago