For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy..

In 1924 Mao took a Chinese friend, newly arrived from Europe, to see the notorious sign in the Shanghai park, 'Chinese and Dogs Not Allowed'..

Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks to….

Human beings are infinitely worth studying, especially the peculiarities that often go along with outstanding gifts..

Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics..

The richness and variety, and indeed the advance, of our culture depend upon the continuation of this conflict [between conservatives and radicals], ….

If we want foxes, to observe and delight in, we must have hunting..

If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativi….

I was very fond of Princess Diana. She used to have me over to lunch to ask my advice. I'd give her good advice, and she'd say: 'I entirely agree. Pa….

My grandfather used to say, "Learn to like art, music and literature deeply and passionately. They will be your friends when things are bad". It is t….

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges..

Wisdom lies not in possessing knowledge - which quickly becomes outdated - but in perpetually seeking it..

Bismarck had cunningly taught the parties not to aim at national appeal but to represent interests. They remained class or sectional pressure-groups ….

The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the most dangerous of all popul….

Long periods of recession, which tend to be self-perpetuating, are usually ended by war, or by preparations for it..

I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy..

As the CIA and KGB, like God and Satan, fight Miltonic battles across five continents..

If I see a door ajar, I push on it to see how far it will open, and if it opens wide I go through it..

The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us ….

If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a….

In the past, the U.S. has shown its capacity to reinvent its gifts for leadership. During the 1970s, in the aftermath of the Nixon abdication and the….