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.

Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.

Science itself is a humanist in the sense that it doesn't discriminate between human beings, but it is also morally neutral. It is no better or worse than the ethos with and for which it is used.

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.

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

There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.