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

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

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

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

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.

The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press: - Concentrated Power of the Big Press. - Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly. - Governmental control of the press. - Timidity, especially in the face of group and corporate pressures. - Big Business mentality. - Clannishness among the newspaper publishers that has prevented them from criticizing each other. - Social blindness.

It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed man.