The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
The way a book is read- which is to say,the qualities a reader brings to a book- can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.
The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.
Don't defy the diagnosis try to defy the verdict.
It is nonsense to say there is not enough time to be fully informed. ... Time given to thought is the greatest timesaver of all.
Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.
It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of ot...
Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
History is a vast early warning system.
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to grow after the New Deal. Government in the U.S. today is a se...
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it withing his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
We will not have peace by afterthought.
To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.
The essence of man is imperfection.
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace.
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.