In societies like the American and West European where the dynamics of energy come from freedom and where the climate and the whole ethos are those of freedom, censorship is bound to be at worst, stupid; at best, futile; and always, to some degree, inconsonant with the character of the society as a whole.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.

There are almost no limits to the discoveries of how the human brain operates in illness and health, in sleep and waking and dreaming, in calm and under tension. The question is how far man can put these discoveries to use without using them not for cure but for power.

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

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

It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.