"To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others." — Max Lerner

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

The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

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