There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.

The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press: - Concentrated Power of the Big Press. - Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly. - Governmental control of the press. - Timidity, especially in the face of group and corporate pressures. - Big Business mentality. - Clannishness among the newspaper publishers that has prevented them from criticizing each other. - Social blindness.

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

A people's speech is the skin of its culture.

The Russians train; they do not dare educate.

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

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