In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.

There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre.

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.

A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.