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

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

When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.

Most people spend their time on the 'urgent' rather than on the 'important.'

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.

Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.

College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.