The music of Africa is big sound: it's the sound of a community
The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
The attempt to politicize everything is the destruction of politics. When everything is seen as relevant to politics, than politics has in fact become totalitarian.
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
Something deathless and dangerous in the world sweeps past you. . . It is something fearful and ominous, something turbulent and to be dreaded, which distends the drama to include the life of nations as well as of men. It is an ageless warning.
Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.
Music is a savage art, a measured madness.
If it's work, we try to figure out how to do less, If it's art, we try to figure out how to do more