There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.

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

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.

The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make anything of the collective effort of shaping their economic society, now expect fortune to descend like pie from the sky.

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

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.

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