The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart.

In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only to what they say in their field of competence, but to their wisdom on every other question in the world.

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.

Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.