Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.

For intellectuals, everyone's mind is closed but their own.

The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of expression,…

In Britain, journalists often view comparisons with our society going back two, three, or seven centuries as more relevant than comparisons going back two, thr…