Quotations

"To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up."
Ogden Nash's words apply not just to marriage but to life in general. Please never say 'I told you so.'


"The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life.
...In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential we embody, and if we do not embody that, life is wasted."
Carl Jung

"I remained a socialist for several years, even after my rejection of Marxism; and if there could be such a thing as socialism combined with individual liberty, I would be a socialist still. For nothing could be better than living a modest, simple, and free life in an egalitarian society. It took some time before I recognized this as no more than a beautiful dream; that freedom is more important than equality; that the attempt to realize equality endangers freedom; and that, if freedom is lost, there will not even be equality among the unfree."
Karl Popper

"Of all the 2010s populists — Le Pen, Bolsonaro, Salvini, Bannon, Trump, Wilders, Petry — only Farage actually got what he wanted." 

Will Lloyd reviewing Michael Crick's Life of Farage. The review is good, as things in Unherd usually are.

“Boris Johnson had a total lack of integrity and was simply constitutionally unfit to be prime minister. He was not capable of understanding what the job was and was consumed by frivolity.” Anthony Seldon in his book on Liz Truss

“When I was a Revolutionary Marxist, we were all in favour of as much immigration as possible. It wasn’t because we liked immigrants, but because we didn’t like Britain.” 

Peter Hitchens