To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities . . . than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.

Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.

Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.

These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

... the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the most significant distinction betweenour present period and the centuries before. And this loss is definite. For no matter how religious our world may turn again, or how much authentic faith still exists in it, or how deeply our moral values may be rooted in our religious systems, the fear of hell is no longer among the motives which would prevent or stimulate the actions of a majority.

Generally speaking, violence always arises out of impotence. It is the hope of those who have no power.

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.