Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.

In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understands the minds of other men and women.

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: thou shalt not ration justice.

​Oh God, it is amazing that men can talk so much about man's creaturely power and goodness, when, if thou didst not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incar​​nate.

He would smile at her and welcome her home.

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.

The music of memory has its own pitch,/which not everyone hears.

In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.

I was clinging to all that had been and, in an ideal world, all that we had hoped for. He, he wanted out.

When women breached the power structure in the 1980s?two economies finally merged. Beauty was no longer just a symbolic form of currency: it literally became money.

My music is pretty honest. I can't rap on science fiction. Punk is from the street.

Better we raise our skill than lower the climb

You have everything to gain and nothing to lose by trying.