“If Algeria introduced a resolution that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.”

“A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.”

“History teaches usthat men and nationsonly behave wiselyonce they have exhaustedall other alternatives."--”

“His ignorance is encyclopedic.”

“Who can live without it?  I ask in all honesty, what would life be, without a song or a dance what are we?”

“Some men think the Earth is round, others think it flat; it is a matter capable of question. But, if it is flat, will the King's command make it round? And, if it is round, will the King's command flatten it?”

“But in practice, neither believed in friendship or loyalty. They believed in passion, they believed in a hybrid form of social or public happiness (both voted Socialist, albeit with the occasional abstention), they believed in the possibility of self-realization.”