Man må arbejde, om ikke af tilbøjelighed så i det mindste af desperation - eftersom det i visse undersøgelser har vist sig, at arbejde er mindre kedeligt end hvile.
Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab, as long as my literary legs hold up.
Sammenlign dig altid med alle dem, der har det værre end du - de tælles i millioner - aldrig med dem, der tilsyneladende har det bedre, de er så betydningsløse få.
Sprog, det menneskelig sprog, er, når alt kommer til alt, ikke stort bedre end hønsenes kaglen og skrigen og andre grove udtryksformer og undertiden mindre dækkende.
Systemet i Sovjet var mere råddent, end jeg troede. Siden 1956 vidste jeg, at det var et hårdt diktatur - men moralsk var det mere råddent end jeg troede.
The politician who once had to learn to flatter kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.
We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only
the educated are free.
When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; When the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. The distinction between crime and justice is no greater
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself--like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.