There is no doubt in my mind that, from the third-person point of view, monarchy is the most reasonable form of government. By embodying the state in a fragile human person, it captures the arbitrariness and the givenness of political allegiance, and so transforms allegiance into affection.
~ Roger Scruton
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In dreams begins responsibility.
~ William Butler Yeats
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Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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The qualities which produce the dogged, unbeatable courage of the British, personified at the time by Winston Churchill, can appear in other settings as stubbornness bordering on stupidity.
~ Dean Acheson
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Sometimes, the only way of doing something is to do it.
~ John Lanchester
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Time will prolong time, and life will serve life.
~ Albert Camus
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
~ Anton Chekhov
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If you only followed the parables you yourselves would become parables and with that rid of all your daily cares.
~ Franz Kafka
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A philosophy does not play its role as an actor during a recital; it interacts with other philosophies and with other facts, and it cannot know the results of the interaction between itself and other world visions.
~ Umberto Eco
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It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
~ Ernest Hemingway