If you mean by capitalism the God-given right of a few big corporations to make all the decisions that will affect millions of workers and consumers and to exclude everyone else from discussing and examining those decisions, then the unions are threatening capitalism.

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.

We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.

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.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

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.

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician