Category: Thought

The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic religious institution.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

If you treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.