I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the mu...rderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to beli...eve all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was easy to recognize in him the anti-social animus of a born evangelist, but there was also something else--a kind of voluptuo...us delight in the shabby and preposterous, a perverted aestheticism like that of a latter-day movie or radio fan, a wild will to roll in and snuffle balderdash as a cat rolls in and snuffles catnip.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To believe that Russia has got rid of the evils of capitalism takes a special kind of mind. It is the same kind of mind that belie...ves that a Holy Roller has got rid of sin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »