“Slander is the first bastion of incompetency.”
“He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.”
“This (...) had made me aware for the first time of the well-disguised myth that they and the academic institutions they represent are bastions of a free exchange of ideas. They are -but only of those ideas that don't 'rock the boat', that refrain from challenging hallowed taboos.”
“Bastions of wealthare no deference for the manwho treads the grand altar of Justicedown and out of sight.”
“I have noticed that, with few exceptions, men bungle their affairs. Everywhere I see incompetence rampant, incompetence triumphant...I have accepted the universality of incompetence.”
“Done to death by slanderous tongue”