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A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.
The Communists offer one precious, fatal boon: they take away the sense of sin.
We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.
There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.
Each of us lives with a sword over his head.
There are those who can ignore its shadow and those who cannot. Those who cannot are not necessarily better than those who can. But they are the creators of the special myth of their time, because any myth is the creation of the very few who cannot bear reality.
We are all addicts in various stages of degradation where I live on the Upper West Side, some to heroin, some to small dogs, and some to the New York Times. The heroin is cut, the dogs are paranoid, and the Times cheats by skimping on the West Coast ball scores. No matter, each of us goes upon the street solely in pursuit of his own particular curse.
A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.
It is a measure of the Negro's circumstance that, in America, the smallest things usually take him so very long, and that, by the time he wins them, they are no longer little things: they are miracles.
Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection of a commitment in which each was tested and to some degree found wanting. [ ... ] The consequences of the journey change the voyager so much more than the embarking or the arrival.
There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.
Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators.
The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.
A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.
As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done in the name of defending us against subversion.
To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that it has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.
America ... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.
Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.
