A Year of Quotations (2025)

In the end we are all sacked and it’s always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life.

April 7, 2025

1 year ago

What is truth? We must adopt a pragmatic definition: it is what is believed to be true.

April 8, 2025

1 year ago

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.

April 9, 2025

1 year ago

…it is a denial of the entire experience of the twentieth century

April 10, 2025

1 year ago

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

April 11, 2025

1 year ago

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything.

April 12, 2025

1 year ago

Freedom & Justice

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

April 13, 2025

1 year ago

Gratitude is not a normal feature of political life.

April 15, 2025

1 year ago

Politicians [are] a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people

April 16, 2025

1 year ago

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

April 17, 2025

1 year ago

The important thing about the so-called ‘communications industry’ is that it is basically concerned with merchandising.

April 18, 2025

1 year ago

Governance

Politics offers yesterday’s answers to today’s questions.

April 19, 2025

1 year ago

War & Peace

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face—forever.

April 20, 2025

1 year ago

Governance

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he.

April 21, 2025

1 year ago

Politics, n. strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles

April 22, 2025

1 year ago

Politics demands a certain rhetoric. It does not demand moral action to fit the rhetoric.

April 23, 2025

1 year ago

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

April 24, 2025

1 year ago

Generosity is part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it

April 25, 2025

1 year ago

Governance

Government…is simply not the channel through which men’s noblest impulses are to be realized.

April 26, 2025

1 year ago

It’s better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

April 27, 2025

1 year ago

Society

A decent provision for the poor, is the true test of civilization.

April 28, 2025

1 year ago

Society

We hope that the world will not narrow into a neighbourhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

April 29, 2025

1 year ago

The market-place is a place set aside where men may deceive and overreach each other.

April 30, 2025

1 year ago

In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos.

May 1, 2025

1 year ago

Philosophy & History

Capitalism, as an institutional arrangement, has been singularly devoid of plausible myths.

May 2, 2025

1 year ago

Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal

May 3, 2025

1 year ago

War & Peace

You don’t mind dying for Queen and country, but you certainly don’t want to die for politicians.

May 4, 2025

1 year ago