Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause trouble for governments they no longer trusted.

History is organized memory, and the organization is all important!

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.

The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it.

The greatest danger that threatens us is neither heterodox thought nor orthodox thought, but the absence of thought.

Art is not a thing

Being dependent on this world will lead to betrayal. It will deceive us at the right time. It is better to depend on a pillow

This market way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience.

I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.

William Stillman's Autism and the God Connection is a sensitive and illuminating work which could dramatically change how we view autism.

I can't blame her. but wonder why she's here with me? where are the other guys? how can you be lucky? having someone the others have abandoned?

She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school.

Regardless what technology is, I like analog too.

Watching something grow is good for morale. It helps us believe in life.