If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had..

Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda..

If you want to know about governments, all you need to know is two words: Governments lie..

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie..

The arms race is based on an optimistic view of technology and a pessimistic view of man. It assumes there is no limit to the ingenuity of science an….

History is a tragedy, not a morality tale..

Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and it….

When war comes, reason is regarded as treason..

You have to take the long view. First, when Moses came down from Mt. Sinai, man has already progressed to the point where a commandment against canni….

A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements..

If you expect to see the final results of your work, you simply have not asked a big enough question..

All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out..

Rich people march on Washington every day..

If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem..

The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer..

The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you’re going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, ….

I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to be washed by seas of p….

The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure..

I sought in political reporting what Galsworthy in another context had called "the significant trifle" - the bit of dialogue, the overlooked fact, th….

Victor Serge died in exile and obscurity, apparently no more than a splinter of a splinter in the Marxist movement. But with the passage of the years….

The only social justice movements worth fighting for are the struggles for justice where you lose, you lose, you lose- until you win..