The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors..

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist..

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to….

There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes..

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions..

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside….

Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human mal….

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little..

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others..

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable..

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil..

In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only to what they say in their field of competen….

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt..

Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glitte….

The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press: - Concentrated Power of the Big Press. - Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly. - Governmental contro….

We must face what we fear; that is the case of the core of the restoration of health..

Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted..

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos..

In the end, as any successful teacher will tell you, you can only teach the things that you are. If we practice racism then it is racism we teach..

A people's speech is the skin of its culture..

What counted was not the facts but the fears..