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

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

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

What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace of mind with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.

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

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.

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.