"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable"

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

"What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface"

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage"

"It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows"

"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven"

"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses"

"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people"

"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible"

"The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board"

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book"