The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.

A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out of insensitiveness than out of deliberate intent, whatever increases sensitiveness of perception and understanding humanizes life.

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

If one shoots at a king, one must not miss.

[A]nti-Semitism was rife in almost all varieties of socialism.

Life has meaning for anyone who takes an interest in it.