A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command belief in the realm of the superhuman.

Meiklejohn's position is that free speech in a democracy is not an absolute flowing from the boundless source of some presumed 'natural right.' It is a practical necessity of 'self-government by universal suffrage,' for if the citizens are not permitted to argue out the issues of government, how can they be what they must be in a democracy - the rulers as well as the ruled?

In the end, as any successful teacher will tell you, you can only teach the things that you are. If we practice racism then it is racism we teach.

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

There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.

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

Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.