A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.
Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.
The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
An act of charity by the citizens questions the worthiness of the government.
The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.
The virtue of its Citizens is the only Support of a Republican government
Laine slowly rolled out of bed. The queen size was one of the few new things in the house. But now, even the new bed felt tainted. It was an inner-spring monument to lies, a petri dish of mendacity she had shared with her faithless husband, and share...
Each new step into his new human existence is frightening. It always means to give up a secure state, which was relatively known, for one which is new, which one has not yet mastered. Undoubtedly, if the infant could think at the moment of the severa...
I remember looking out the window of the little maid's room where we had been installed, seeing the lights of the Palisades across the way, and thinking, There! There it is! There's New York, this wonderful city, I'll go live there someday. Even bein...
For me, art in our time is strongest when it is aware of science, includes science, is inspired by science, or is about science. On the linguistic level, the new words coined by scientists to describe their new discoveries form a giant growing lexico...
Nicholas: So, you've played recently? New Member Ted: Oh, about a year ago. I was working in Los Angeles. Nicholas: I hear the London office is very good, too. It just sounds like a lot of fantasy, role-playing nonsense. New Member Ted: [leans in] Yo...
Pain was a fascinating horror
Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.
The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.
When they are all thinking alike, they aren't thinking at all.
Only memories have a future.
They all come innocent in court.
I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them.
