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

Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.

Man must be at once more humble and more confident; more humble in the face of destructive potentials of what he can achieve, more confident of his own humanity as against computers and robots which are only engines to simulate him.

Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.

America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.

The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for 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.