You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace..

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts..

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner..

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

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

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

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

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

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….

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..

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….

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

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….

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..

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….

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..

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

What counted was not the facts but the fears..

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….