The best antidote for crime is justice. The irony we often fail to appreciate is that the more justice people enjoy, the fewer crimes they commit. Crime is the natural offspring of an unjust society.

The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end, life itself is but an argument.

What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.

Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived under a pernicious power long enough, no matter how oppressive, we grow so accustomed to the yoke that its removal seems frightening, even wrong.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

It is an anomaly that we can split the atom, but we are nearly powerless to persuade each other to embrace justice.

The stain of prejudice is often indelible.