When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you

The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isn't part of the local atmosphere.

Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with