The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
Effective action is always unjust.
Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director
Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Thought is free.
Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.
