Occupation: Journalist Birth: November 2, 1928
Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules..
The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth..
Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down..
There are no inevitabilities in history.
A capitalist economy hums when leading businessmen are bubbling with animal spirits and are prepared to sink their money into risky ventures..
The richness and variety, and indeed the advance, of our culture depend upon the continuation of this conflict [between conservatives and radicals], ….
A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges..
Human beings are infinitely worth studying, especially the peculiarities that often go along with outstanding gifts..
As the CIA and KGB, like God and Satan, fight Miltonic battles across five continents..
Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks to….
Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth.
At some time in their careers, most good historians itch to write a history of the world, endeavor to discover what makes humanity the most destructi….
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..
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'..
In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an escape route for itself to a….
I like that lady - Sarah Palin. She's great. I like the cut of her jib..
I've been having an affair, but I still believe in family values..
The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them..
Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality..
It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion, and contrasting the smo….
If we want foxes, to observe and delight in, we must have hunting..