We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.

America's experiment with government of the people, by the people, and for the people depends not only on constitutional structure and organization but also on the commitment, person to person, that we make to each other.

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw.

We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.