Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day.

There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.

Maybe you are the "cool" generation. If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.