If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through.

Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.

In the age of television, image becomes more important than substance.

The last thing a scientist would do is cling to a map because he inherited it from his grandfather, or because it was used by George Washington or Abraham Lincoln.

Patriotic societies seem to think that the way to educate school children in a democracy is to stage bigger and better flag-saluting.

Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation