Hesitate once, hesitate twice, hesitate a hundred times before employing political standards as a device for the analysis and appreciation of poetry.

I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.

The point of protesting about 'moral equivalence' is surely not to blur moral choices on ‘our side’. Is it?

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the needless assumption altogether. This holds true for everything from Noah's flood to the Holocaust.

Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member is faring (or feeling).