“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.”

“It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to the same practical result — ruthlessness in political life.”

“Classical organization theory suffers from "ethnocentrism": It ignores the significance of the political, social, and economic milieu in shaping organizations and influencing managerial practice.”

“Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.”

“Decent people should ignore politics, if only they could be confident that politics would ignore them”

“Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.”

“Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.”

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.”

“Politeness does not interfere with facts, politeness is just another fact.”

“The conversion of Constantine … was the effective beginning of “Christendom,” namely, of that particular form of the Christian religion that consists of a strong alliance of Christianity with political and social power, sometimes amounting to the practical identification of Christianity with the dominant forces of the society in which it finds itself.”