I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right....Dead, but right.

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

It appeared that most of the men and boys had died of starvation; they had not been executed. But the manner of death seemed unimportant. Murder had been done at Buchenwald. God alone knows how many men and boys have died there during the last twelve years.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.

Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.

Just once in a while, let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.