Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.
As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him.
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the limits marked by the demands of his safety this must be done.
Schools vast factories for the manufacture of robots.
It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.
Mass Man, the universal psychopath, is born when the individual ego is weakened to the point at which it loses separate identity and is forced, for security, to merge with the mass.
I have been very lucky: my writing has taken me across the world, and I have seen some extraordinary sites and sights.
. . . on the whole 'blasphemy' has been a force for good in human history. It is part of the process by which millions of people have come to reject theocracy and think for themselves.
Every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning.
Courage, cheerfulness, and a desire to work depends mostly on good nutrition.