The police can’t use clubs or gas or dogs. I suppose they will have to use poison ivy.
Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them.
The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.
The real threat, as seen by the ACLU, is that religious behavior might give secular behavior a bad name, and that is, surely, unconstitutional.
Bobby Kennedy and Nelson Rockefeller are having a row, ostensibly over the plight of New York’s mentally retarded, a loose definition of which would include everyone in New York who voted for Bobby Kennedy or Nelson Rockefeller.
History is but the polemics of the victor.
Conservatives should be adamant about the need for the reappearance of Judeo-Christianity in the public square.
Professor Galbraith is horrified by the number of Americans who have bought cars with tail fins on them, and I am horrified by the number of Americans who take seriously the proposals of Mr. Galbraith.
Everything I do and say and the way I do and say it annoys me.
Boredom is the deadliest poison.
Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.
You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.
Government can’t do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.
Industry is the enemy of melancholy.
One doesn’t read Jane Austen; one re-reads Jane Austen.
Socialize the individual’s surplus and you socialize his spirit and creativeness...
Stick me in a confessional and ask the question: Sir, if you had the authority, would you forbid smoking in America? You’d get a solemn and contrite, Yes.
Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures.
Kennedy after all has lots of glamour – Gregory Peck with an atom bomb in his holster.
Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books.