The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.

In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understands the minds of other men and women.

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Women are pleasured treasures.

I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

You need teeth like mine!" Grandma said. "You can just mail 'em to the dentist!

I've always enjoyed myself. Unhappy periods for me last about twenty minutes.

The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product.

Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines.

[We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from the reality of death.