Blame should be apportioned liberally to those who truly deserve it, and if there’s any left over it can be allotted to those who don’t.

If the ethics you stand upon is flawed then everything you depend upon will be faulty; then it’s just a question of being able to see those flaws to correct them, preferably before it destroys you.

You can never be told what you need to know, as you can only find that out for yourself.

After being told how to think and what to feel you can still disagree with why you should find that agreeable, even though you do tend to agree with it after all.

Bitterness speaks volumes about bitterness.

It is amazing how much you can fail to understand, especially when you don’t even try.

Sometimes it is more humane to let those who are going to fail, fail; but it is only common decency to tell them exactly why that is straight to their face.

The truth is, you’re usually too late to hearken to the truth; but if you did, you’d have learnt your lesson by now.

The greatest failing of the leadership class once they have tasted the fruits of leadership must be their continued desire to lead...

The dice are always loaded. What the player wants to decide once he has them in his grasp is what sort of game he wants to play with them.

The task that is left half-finished is the one that is always most familiar to us once we choose to leave it utterly alone.

Being told what to do must inevitably have this one attractive result to it: that you won’t have to think of how to do that for yourself too much anymore.

You don’t have to be a philosopher to philosophise; but, sometimes, it must help.

The normal in society conforms to its normalizing force, or else it isn’t normal.