It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The real world teaches very different lessons, and it takes willful and dedicated ignorance to fail to perceive them.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American President would have been hanged.
I choose to live in what I think is the greatest country in the world, which is committing horrendous terrorist acts and should stop.
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.