Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

The roles that we construct are constructed because we feel that they will help us to survive and also, of course, because they fulfill something in our person…

At the rate things are going here, all of Africa will be free before we can get a lousy cup of coffee.

Nor is it any longer possible for you to give up this empire ... Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerou…

All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.