Nobody has yet found a way of bombing that can prevent foot soldiers from walking.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

When all think alike, then no one is thinking

The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.

The news and the truth are not the same thing.

The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

Today we're younger than we're ever gonna be

If something is boring after two minutes try it for four. If still boring try for eight sixteen thirty-two and so on. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring but very interesting.

I think everybody has a public persona. We all present ourselves.

Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in opposition. Such are laws of nature and balance.

Knowing where you come from is one thing, but it's suicide to stay there.

Look at all the conflict between tribes, nations, and religions. They need their enemies, because they provide the sense of separateness on which their collective egoic identity depends.

If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat

At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Anesthesia is quite remarkable. Its lost time. And you wake up kind of refreshed.