The best way I know to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

The best way I know to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the read more

Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is far too short for read more

All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is far too short for us to think through even a small fraction of the topics that we come across.

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at read more

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.

Destiny is an invention of the cowardly and the resigned.

Destiny is an invention of the cowardly and the resigned.

You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.

You cannot criticize the New Testament. It criticizes you.