The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been bombed and shelled for at the back of a bombing run is invariably a photograph. In the back of ruined towns, and cities, and factories, there is aerial mapping, or spy mapping, usually with a camera. Therefore the camera is a feared instrument, and a man with a camera is suspected and watched wherever he goes... In the minds of most people today the camera is the forerunner of destruction, and it is suspected, and rightly so.

I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. A confused people can make no clear demands.

I carry a gun cause a cop is too heavy.

This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow and disintegrate, man reaches, stumbles forward, painfully, mistakenly sometimes. Having stepped forward, he may slip back, but only half a step, never the full step back.

Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.