Whenever you hear the word "inevitable", watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.

To be great is to assume great concerns.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

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.

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

To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.