The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.

The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for.

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

Every age is blind to its own worst madness.

It may well be that a societys greatest madness seems normal to itself.