Quotes Library

May 8, 2025

Diplomacy is about surviving till the next century—politics is about surviving till Friday afternoon.

Jonathan Lyn (1943- ) and Antony Jay (1930–2016) British writers, Yes, Prime Minister, vol. 1 (1986), Jay p.235

What your batting average on this score?

Yes, Friday afternoon, when you can get out of town after quietly issuing some bad news press release.

January 31, 2025

11 months ago

It is we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; not yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.

January 19, 2025

11 months ago

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

May 1, 2025

8 months ago

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

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