When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.

A just society must strive with all its might to right wrongs even if righting wrongs is a highly perilous undertaking. But if it is to survive, a just society must be strong and resolute enough to deal swiftly and relentlessly with those who would mistake its good will for weakness.

Up to now, America has not been a good milieu for the rise of a mass movement. What starts out here as a mass movement ends up as a racket, a cult, or a corporation.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.