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

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

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.

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

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.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.