"The ideal of the omni-competent, sovereign citizen is ... a false ideal. It is unattainable. The pursuit of it is mis…"

"If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Eu…"

"The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-exi…"

"A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ...Without criticism and reliable and in…"

"You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers."

"[A]ll achievement should be measured in human happiness."

"Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in w…"

"Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others."

"Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our…"

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