If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination.
Richard HofstadterTo be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury.
Richard HofstadterA university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.
Richard HofstadterOne 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.
Richard Hofstadter