Out Of The Crooked Timber Of Humanity,

The Desire Not To Be Impinged Upon, To Be Left To Oneself, Has Been The Markof High Civilisation Both On The Part Of Individuals And Communities.

Utopias Have Their Value -- Nothing So Wonderfully Expands The Imaginative Horizons Of Human Potentialities -- But As Guides To Conduct They Can Prove Literally Fatal.

The Very Desire For Guarantees That Our Values Are Eternal And Secure In Some Objective Heaven Is Perhaps Only A Craving For The Certainties Of Childhood Or The Absolute Values Of Our Primitive Past.

The Case Against The Notion Of Historical Objectivity Is Like The Case Against International Law, Or International Morality; That It Does Not Exist.

Lenin Could Listen So Intently That He Exhausted The Speaker.