The inexpressible is the only thing that is worthwhile.

The inexpressible is the only thing that is worthwhile.

To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them into what J. S. Mill called a "moral police," is to make them despotic arbiters of literary products. If one day they ban mediocre books as obscene, another day they may do likewise to a work of genius.

The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.

To say I removes a false impression of a Jovian aloofness.

Any treatment of an illness that does not also minister to the human spirit is grossly deficient.

We want no dictatorship of physicists, as physicists. If our democracy is to realize its full promise, we want no dictatorship at all - of any species. What we want and need is the enlightened and active interest of all men of intelligence and goodwill in their government, and their participation in its functions.