Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.

Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible old men.

Genuine [economic] value lies in the power to sustain or enrich life

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless.

To the extent that the scientist's capacity for pursuing the truth depends upon costly apparatus, institutional collaboration and heavy capital investment by government or industry he is no longer his own master.

This metropolitan world, then, is a world where flesh and blood is less real than paper and ink and celluloid.