If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
I daresay I was the worst bed partner in five continents.
People often say, with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics. ' They might as well say, 'I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future. '. . . If we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics.
I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.
Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the land, famine wiping out helpless millions. Americans had to be taught to hate and fear an unseen enemy. The teachers were men in official positions, in government, men whom Americans normally trust without question.
We know that investment causes growth. But it is also true that growth causes investment.
You can have a broad popular democracy movement and have it end being taken over by the most vicious people and the result is you don't end up with free political systems or free economic systems, you end up with a handful of radicals controlling the country.
The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities
I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.