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The quotations herein were found in various locations, as referenced with each quotation, some from editions of a particular author’s work, some in online versions of the works of classical authors, and the bulk of what follows from collections of quotations, a favourite excavation site of mine since I discovered them in my teens.
I am most grateful to the editors of my source-books, for making my work so much easier.

April 5, 2025
April 5, 2025
This year will be harder than last year. On the other hand, it will be easier than next year.
April 6, 2025
April 6, 2025
In the end we are all sacked and it’s always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life.
April 7, 2025
April 7, 2025
What is truth? We must adopt a pragmatic definition: it is what is believed to be true.
April 8, 2025
April 8, 2025
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
April 9, 2025
April 9, 2025
…it is a denial of the entire experience of the twentieth century
April 10, 2025
April 10, 2025
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
April 11, 2025
April 11, 2025
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything.
April 12, 2025
April 12, 2025
A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
April 13, 2025
April 13, 2025
Gratitude is not a normal feature of political life.
April 15, 2025
April 15, 2025
Politicians [are] a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people
April 16, 2025
April 16, 2025
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
April 17, 2025
April 17, 2025
The important thing about the so-called ‘communications industry’ is that it is basically concerned with merchandising.
April 18, 2025
April 18, 2025
Politics offers yesterday’s answers to today’s questions.
April 19, 2025
April 19, 2025
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face—forever.
April 20, 2025
April 20, 2025
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
April 21, 2025
Politics, n. strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles
April 22, 2025
April 22, 2025
Politics demands a certain rhetoric. It does not demand moral action to fit the rhetoric.
April 23, 2025
April 23, 2025
If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
April 24, 2025
April 24, 2025
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
April 25, 2025
Government…is simply not the channel through which men’s noblest impulses are to be realized.
April 26, 2025
April 26, 2025
It’s better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
April 27, 2025
April 27, 2025
A decent provision for the poor, is the true test of civilization.
April 28, 2025
April 28, 2025
We hope that the world will not narrow into a neighbourhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
April 29, 2025
April 29, 2025
The market-place is a place set aside where men may deceive and overreach each other.
April 30, 2025
April 30, 2025
In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos.
May 1, 2025
May 1, 2025
Capitalism, as an institutional arrangement, has been singularly devoid of plausible myths.
May 2, 2025
May 2, 2025
Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal
May 3, 2025
May 3, 2025
You don’t mind dying for Queen and country, but you certainly don’t want to die for politicians.
May 4, 2025
May 4, 2025
There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.
May 5, 2025
May 5, 2025
The world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.
May 6, 2025
May 6, 2025
Our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past
May 7, 2025
May 7, 2025
The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor
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