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.

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

We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.

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

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

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.

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?