Donald Trump's staffing up a pretty traditional, very conservative Republican government, not a populist outsider government, at least not yet.
The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.
When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
A free spirit must be able to surmount anxiety time after time.
War. " Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.
Love at first sight is a revival of an infantile impression. The first love object reappears in a different disguise.
She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not a comrade and could never be - for a woman. And that no one would ever be that version of herself which she sought to reach out to and touch with an ungloved hand. There was only her own mood and whim, and if that was all there was, she decided to turn the naked hand toward it, discover it and let others become as intimate with their own selves as she was.