You know, a lot of people are loath to go to an orchestral concert because they are intimidated by the thought..

[There] is no class so dangerous as the idle educated..

Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy….

Where fashion in clothes, bodily adornment, and music are concerned, it is the underclass that increasingly sets the pace. Never before has there bee….

Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around..

Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic,….

In Britain, journalists often view comparisons with our society going back two, three, or seven centuries as more relevant than comparisons going bac….

Having been issued the false prospectus of happiness through unlimited sex, modern man concludes, when he is not happy with his life, that his sex ha….

The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence..

Modernity is the most transient of qualities..

All I ever wanted to do was act..

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease..

Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations..

The attempt to regulate relations between people too closely, by means of the law, in the name of an abstraction such as equality, leads to both absu….

In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome..

We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious..

The real and most pressing question raised by any social problem is: "How do I appear concerned and compassionate to all my friends, colleagues, and ….

The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions and w….

For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed..

Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults, the b….

In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never..