When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away..

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist..

A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one..

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death.

We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes..

Football, fraternities and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university..

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped on….

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment..

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America..

Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investi….

The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked..

Education can be dangerous. It is very difficult to make it not dangerous. In fact, it is almost impossible..

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault..

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do ….

Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw..

Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition..

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books..

Too few have the courage of my convictions..

Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational a….

...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die..

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe….