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

Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

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

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?

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.