America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner.
Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.
In societies like the American and West European where the dynamics of energy come from freedom and where the climate and the whole ethos are those of freedom, censorship is bound to be at worst, stupid; at best, futile; and always, to some degree, inconsonant with the character of the society as a whole.
It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed man.
There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.
Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.
When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.
A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command belief in the realm of the superhuman.
The Russians train; they do not dare educate.
A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.
It is not the armed forces which can protect our democracy. It is the moral strength of democracy which alone can give any meaning to the efforts at military security.
The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.
The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.
I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.
Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart.
If you mean by capitalism the God-given right of a few big corporations to make all the decisions that will affect millions of workers and consumers and to exclude everyone else from discussing and examining those decisions, then the unions are threatening capitalism.
A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.
American capitalism has been both overpraised and overindicted. It is neither the Plumed Knight nor the monstrous Robber Baron.
Man must be at once more humble and more confident; more humble in the face of destructive potentials of what he can achieve, more confident of his own humanity as against computers and robots which are only engines to simulate him.
The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make anything of the collective effort of shaping their economic society, now expect fortune to descend like pie from the sky.
It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.
Science itself is a humanist in the sense that it doesn't discriminate between human beings, but it is also morally neutral. It is no better or worse than the ethos with and for which it is used.
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