“Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind and finds the readiest responses.”
“Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don’t need to train babies to speak; they just do. But reading is different.”
“It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.”
“If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.”
“Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history.”
“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.”