I couldn't care less about walking down the red carpet in a pair of heels and a posh frock. I'd rather be in my pyjamas at home.
Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.
Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.
I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.
We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.
Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space.
The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable.
One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.
Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.
To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.
With Akismet, there was an interesting dilemma. Is it for the good of the world Akismet being secret and being more effective against spammers, versus it being open and less effective?
I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.
If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
