Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

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?

Never give up hope, no matter how dark things may seem.

You need to GIVE UP on methods that always give you wrong results... No matter how committed you are with a wrong formular, it always gives a wrong answer. Give up!

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.

Reason is 6/7 of treason.

When you looked up to the sky and cried 'Why?' sometimes the sky shrugged, yet other times it answered with warm assurance of linked hands.

I do think that we are an overmedicated society.

The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.

During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.

You can not hope to arrive at harmony in your life while stirring up disturbances in anothers.

The GOP/corporate right-wing, it seems, never really considers the consequences of their actions.