Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences. – John Buchan
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. – John Buchan
He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply. – John Buchan
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest. – John Buchan
The search for conspiracy only increases the elements of morbidity and paranoia and fantasy in this country. It romanticizes crimes that are terrible because of their lack of purpose. It obscures our necessary understanding, all of us, that in this life there is often tragedy without reason. – Anthony Lewis