Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

In the American Jewish community, there is little willingness to face the fact that the Palestinian Arabs have suffered a monstrous historical injustice . . . Until this is recognized, discussion of the Middle East crisis cannot even begin.

The basic principle, rarely violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and privilege does not exist.

If commissars in Soviet Russia agreed to subordinate themselves to state power, they could at least plead fear in extenuation. Their counterparts in more free and open societies can plead only cowardice.

If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it.

Independence of mind, enthusiasm, dedication to the field, and willingness to challenge and question and to explore new direction. There are plenty of people like that, but schools tend to discourage those characteristics.

About specific social issues, there is a great deal to say that departs very far from truism and is, accordingly, significant and controversial.