Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.
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.
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.
When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.