A Year of Quotations (2025)

It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong—but that is the way to bet.

September 16, 2025

5 months ago

Philosophy & History

Experience attains many things which natural gifts alone could never attain.

September 17, 2025

5 months ago

The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

September 18, 2025

5 months ago

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

September 19, 2025

5 months ago

Culture

Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe;

September 20, 2025

5 months ago

Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.

September 21, 2025

5 months ago

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

September 22, 2025

5 months ago

The professional politician can sympathize with the professional advertiser

September 23, 2025

5 months ago

Almost all that has been done for the good of the people has been done since the rich lost the monopoly of power

September 24, 2025

5 months ago

In the end, it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

September 25, 2025

5 months ago

…that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

September 26, 2025

5 months ago

War & Peace

It is better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait for it to abolish itself from below.

September 27, 2025

5 months ago

Society

When the lay public rallies round to an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists

September 28, 2025

5 months ago

Society

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

September 29, 2025

5 months ago

Always deny what you don’t want to be known, and always affirm what you want to be believed.

September 30, 2025

5 months ago

[Definition of] Class: when they’re running you out of town, to look like you’re leading the parade.

October 1, 2025

5 months ago

Governance

Guidelines for bureaucrats: (1) When in charge, ponder.

October 2, 2025

5 months ago

In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.

October 3, 2025

5 months ago

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

October 4, 2025

5 months ago

Most men make little other use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.

October 5, 2025

5 months ago

Every man is equally entitled to protection by law

October 6, 2025

5 months ago

Communication & Education

Our Constitution is color-blind and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

October 7, 2025

5 months ago

Philosophy & History

…since the affairs of the world are subject to change and to a thousand and one different accidents

October 8, 2025

5 months ago

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room.

October 9, 2025

5 months ago

Being an MP feeds your vanity and starves your self-respect.

October 10, 2025

5 months ago

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

October 11, 2025

4 months ago

The second law, Rakove’s law of principle and politics, states that the citizen is influenced by principle

October 12, 2025

4 months ago

Governance

Parties come to power with silly, inconsistent and impossible policies

October 13, 2025

4 months ago

Philosophy & History

he opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists

October 14, 2025

4 months ago

Speak well, but speak little.

October 15, 2025

4 months ago