A racist system inevitably destroys and damages human beings; it brutalizes and dehumanizes them, blacks and whites alike.

Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place unnecessary burdens upon human beings.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which persuades human beings to change their basic assumptions is usually contained in a few phrases.

Lives devoted to Beauty seldom end well.

Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.

The nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our imaginative experience.