New Year's Quotes

“Once she’d remarked, for example, that the problem, even for socialist countries, is that those people who are deeply committed to ideals of any sort are unlikely to hold power; political power goes to those who will do whatever needs to be done to amass it, for whom non-pragmatic ethical commitments don’t much register.”
― Adelle Waldman, New Year's: Nathaniel P. as Seen Through the Eyes of His Friend Aurit