No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. – Adam Smith Category: Society
To reject the word is to reject the human search. – Max Lerner, 1953, on book purging Category: Censorship
The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline. – Jacob Bronowski Category: Rules