Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent ‘the people’. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth.
A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.
The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.
Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.