A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a goo...
Until you have done something for humanity, wrote the great American educator Horace Mann, you should be ashamed to die.
There should be philosophy and knowledge for the elect, religion and sentimentality for the masses
There are days when I miss my old convictions as if they were an amputated limb. But in general I feel better, and no less radical, and you will feel better too, I guarantee, once you leave hold of th...
The problem with open-mindedness is that it can become empty-mindedness
The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
The noble title of dissident must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.
The conventional word that is employed to describe tyranny is systematic. The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it...
Porcophilia can also be used for oppressive and repressive purposes. In medieval Spain, where Jews and Muslims were compelled on pain of death and torture to convert to Christianity, the religious aut...
Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marke...
Be ... suspicious ... of all those who employ the term 'we' or 'us' without your permission. This is [a] form of surreptitious conscription ... Always ask who this 'we' is; as often as not it's an att...
A point, like a joke, is a terrible thing to miss.
A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.
A consciousness of rectitude can be a terrible thing, and in those days I didn’t just think that I was right: I thought that we (our group of International Socialists in particular) were being damn we...
Bad habits have brought me this far: why change such a tried-and-true formula?
If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.
It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.
To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?
For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.
The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the ad...