The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny.

Words that do not create images should be discarded.

Love is how we feel toward those who show us that which is lovable about ourselves.

Nearly every day on the television set the hero cop breaks into the bad guy's house and beats a confession out of him and we cheer on the cop. Propaganda smears our clear vision. It causes us to accept the diminishment of our constitutional protections as something to be lauded - after all, the cop was protecting us.

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

Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument.

A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights - which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state.