Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

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

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

When all think alike, then no one is thinking

The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.

The news and the truth are not the same thing.

The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

Believe in people, they fly for a day. Teach them to believe in themselves, they soar for a lifetime.

If you just did what you wanted to do, and didn't care what anyone thought, you'd be Autistic.

Sugar cane reach up to GodAnd every baby cryingShame the blanket of my nightAnd all my days are dying

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

Lycos needs to be bought because other suitors will have to pay a higher premium

The amygdala, along with related areas..., plays a crucial role in coordinating perceptions with memory and behavior. These regions are especially sensitive to social interactions.

You know, if you find a person that you've never seen before getting in a crop-duster that doesn't belong to you, report it.

That is the Mongolian creation myth: out of two different natures love is born. In contradiction, love grows in strength. In confrontation and transformation, love is preserved.

Perhaps the thing that most got to me was the ide - the whole thing about lying, and how pervasive lying about Vietnam was.

The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.