“Beyond the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum: truculent language masked an inner hollowness”

― Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy

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“Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, had always been the systematic organization of hatreds, and Massachusetts politics had been as harsh as the climate.”

― Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

“The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.”

― Anthony Trollope, Phineas Redux

“Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

“The people who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

“Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“Paris blacked out. Paris. As if the light of the world were to be blacked out.”

― Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph

“I said, let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler: but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.”

― George Eliot, Daniel Deronda

“Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the...”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

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