Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Category Archive: 1912
Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world’s ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions.
In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.
There are no instant solutions.
We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
The writer’s object is – or should be – to hold the reader’s attention.