Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated read more

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

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

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country. - Memorial service for Justice Brandeis, December 21, 1942.

I haven't seen this kind of support [for a tax cut] in the 26 years I've been in Congress.

I haven't seen this kind of support [for a tax cut] in the 26 years I've been in Congress.

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state

For the first time anywhere in the United States, an appellate court has ruled that such private communities are 'constitutional read more

For the first time anywhere in the United States, an appellate court has ruled that such private communities are 'constitutional actors' and must therefore respect their members' freedom of speech.

I think there are perhaps four playwrights of the 20th century that we could not have done without: Chekhov, Pirandello, read more

I think there are perhaps four playwrights of the 20th century that we could not have done without: Chekhov, Pirandello, Brecht and Beckett. If you've got those four, you've got the century covered.

The peer review system is satisfactory during quiescent times, but not during a revolution in a discipline such as astrophysics, read more

The peer review system is satisfactory during quiescent times, but not during a revolution in a discipline such as astrophysics, when the establishment seeks to preserve the status quo.

We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going.

We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going.

He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and read more

He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.