Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan.

A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.

The idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to men with profoundly disturbed minds. It is the use of paranoid modes of expression by more or less normal people that makes the phenomenon significant.

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury.

One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged.

Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan.