“...and what is a good weapon but a good idea made murderous flesh?” — Paul Hoffman Arm Copy Share Image
The full potential of labor can be utilized only if there is mobility in labor. — Paul Hoffman Full Copy Share Image
“It's pointless to blame someone for being themselves and looking to their own interests.” — Paul Hoffman Blame Copy Share Image
“I'm not conceited. I'm just honest about being so much better than other people.” — Paul Hoffman Honest Copy Share Image
If there was to be a new Europe, there not only had to be a common market, but also great mobility in… — Paul Hoffman Also Copy Share Image
“Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that’s been in front of you… — Paul Hoffman Bones Copy Share Image
“Hypocrites,’ replied Cale, ‘I’ve come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them… — Paul Hoffman Bosco Copy Share Image
“Think of how strange the colours and sights of the world would be for a blind man abruptly made to see or… — Paul Hoffman Blind Copy Share Image
“You're the right colour for the Angel of Death, Mister Cale. But a little short.' 'I could cut your head off and… — Paul Hoffman Angel Copy Share Image
“Whatever discoveries have been made in the land of self-delusion, many undiscovered regions remain to be explored.” — Paul Hoffman Discoveries Copy Share Image
“Listen. The Sanctuary of the Redeemers on Shotover Scarp is named after a damned lie for there is no redemption that goes… — Paul Hoffman Opening-lines Copy Share Image
“- Why you? - (...) I’m the best. - Modest of you. - I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say… — Paul Hoffman Best Copy Share Image
“t was once famously said that it is as well that wars are so ruinously expensive, else we would never stop fighting… — Paul Hoffman Cale Copy Share Image
“Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’ ‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of… — Paul Hoffman Action Copy Share Image
“Until two days ago what had driven him was the will to survive: deep, animal, full of rage—but always part of him… — Paul Hoffman Affraid Copy Share Image
As far as we were concerned, we were operators, we were administrators. I don't ever recall going to Dean Acheson and asking… — Paul Hoffman Administration Copy Share Image
In its best prewar year, Europe with almost 300 million people had a gross national product of 150 billion dollars. In that… — Paul Hoffman Almost Copy Share Image
“How can I know for sure if it's my son speaking and not you?" "You never can, my lord. Just as no… — Paul Hoffman Awareness Copy Share Image
“In such a beast as this..." (he means the army)"...it was the collective power that went, collapsing like a long-exhausted animal, at… — Paul Hoffman Animals Copy Share Image
Among the reasons for this was the fact that the U.S.A. is one mass market. It is only when you have a… — Paul Hoffman Among Copy Share Image
“Though your sins are like scarlet they shall be white as snow, though they be as red like crimson, they shall be… — Paul Hoffman Scarlet Copy Share Image
“Even the bleakest, cruelest soul can have its tender spots. Even the harshest desert has its pools, its shady trees and gentle… — Paul Hoffman Bleakest Copy Share Image
“We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an… — Paul Hoffman All Copy Share Image
“Cuanto más viejo me hago más propenso a creer que si el amor ha de juzgarse por sus efectos visibles, se parece… — Paul Hoffman Amor Copy Share Image
“Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims—the second it crushes, the first it… — Paul Hoffman Brake Copy Share Image
“...the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it… — Paul Hoffman Arbell Copy Share Image
“It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger –… — Paul Hoffman Against Copy Share Image
“Intelligence has many shades, but rage is the same colour everywhere. Humiliation tastes the same to everyone.” — Paul Hoffman Anger Copy Share Image
“Where have you come from boy?' He looked at her again. 'From hell, to take you away in the night and eat… — Paul Hoffman Come Copy Share Image
If he had listened to some of his advisors and had tried to make the Marshall Plan a political dumping ground for… — Paul Hoffman Marshall plan Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, war being the unjust and drastic creature it is, those in whom he invested hopes took an arrow in the chest,… — Paul Hoffman Another day Copy Share Image
“To be sociable is a risky thing—even fatal—because it means being in contact with people, most of whom are dull, perverse and… — Paul Hoffman Friendship Copy Share Image
“In stories of the good and bad it's only the good who are subject to dreadful luck, mischance and blundering. The bad… — Paul Hoffman Cunning Copy Share Image
