More free time means more time to waste. The worker who used to have only a little time in which to get drunk and beat his wife now has time to get drunk, beat his wife - and watch TV.

We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.

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

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death

...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.