You've really got to wear a chastity belt in Washington to preserve your journalistic virginity. Once the secretary of state invites you to lunch a….

A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements..

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

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

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 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, ….

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

The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news. With a dozen or so honorable exceptions, mos….

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

Rich people march on Washington every day..

There must be renewed recognition that societies are kept stable and healthy by reform, not by thought police; this means there must be free play for….

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

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

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….

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….

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

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….

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