Bergen Evans Quotes
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.
That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.
There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.
Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life. The better control we have over words, the more successful our adjustment is likely to be.
Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.
For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity.
