Of The Many Things We Have Done

Do Not Confuse Your Vested Interests With Ethics. Do Not Identify The Enemies Of Your Privilege With The Enemies Of Humanity.

There Are Almost No Limits To The Discoveries Of How The Human Brain Operates In Illness And Health, In Sleep And Waking And Dreaming, In Calm And Under Tension. The Question Is How Far Man Can Put These Discoveries To Use Without Using Them Not For Cure But For Power.

The Problem Of Freedom In America Is That Of Maintaining A Competition Of Ideas, And You Do Not Achieve That By Silencing One Brand Of Idea.

The Crime Of Book Purging Is That It Involves A Rejection Of The Word. For The Word Is Never Absolute Truth, But Only Man's Frail And Human Effort To Approach The Truth. To Reject The Word Is To Reject The Human Search.

Next To The Striking Of Fire And The Discovery Of The Wheel, The Greatest Triumph Of What We Call Civilization Was The Domestication Of The Human Male.