Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetuated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of people as inherently legitimate, no matter who commits it.

Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.

The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.

Those who love the young best stay young longer.

Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.

What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.