“One of the advantages of defeat in life - maybe the main advantage - is that it provides an excuse for change. Defeat... invariably leads to new adventures.”

“Nations like individuals have to limit their objectives or take the consequences.”

“The grossest thing in our gross national product today is our language. It is suffering from inflation.”

“This was a great year for preventive worrying. Seldom in recent history have so many people worried about so many things that didn't happen in the end.”

“Nations like individuals have to limit their objectives or take the consequences.”

“People are always dying in the Times who don't seem to die in other papers, and they die at greater length and maybe even with a little more grace.”

“The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.”

“All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.”

“One can't love humanity. One can only love people.”

“I came only to report the news, to gather information. I didn't come to find out the truth.”

“All new news is old news happening to new people”

“Good news didn't seem real until you'd told at least a dozen friends.”