A people's speech is the skin of its culture.

Man must be at once more humble and more confident; more humble in the face of destructive potentials of what he can achieve, more confident of his own humanity as against computers and robots which are only engines to simulate him.

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

Science itself is a humanist in the sense that it doesn't discriminate between human beings, but it is also morally neutral. It is no better or worse than the ethos with and for which it is used.

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

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.

Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted.