Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

The modern age has been characterized by a Promethean spirit, a restless energy that preys on speed records and shortcuts, unmindful of the past, uncaring of the future, existing only for the moment and the quick fix. The earthly rhythms that characterize a more pastoral way of life have been shunted aside to make room for the fast track of an urbanized existence. Lost in a sea of perpetual technological transition, modern man and woman find themselves increasingly alienated from the ecological choreography of the planet.

As if there were safety in stupidity alone.

...a man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable.

I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.