Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.
That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.
Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.
A lot of prizes have been awarded for showing the universe is not as simple as we might have thought.
I've made lots of big decisions in my life that have shocked people.
There is no marriage in Heaven, but there is love.
The workers love Khrushchev very much. He hasn't got an enemy in the entire country. Quite a few under it.