It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.

The taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.

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

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

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

In the end, as any successful teacher will tell you, you can only teach the things that you are. If we practice racism then it is racism we teach.

In societies like the American and West European where the dynamics of energy come from freedom and where the climate and the whole ethos are those of freedom, censorship is bound to be at worst, stupid; at best, futile; and always, to some degree, inconsonant with the character of the society as a whole.