“Whoever teaches without emancipating stultifies.”

“Critical art is an art that aims to produce a new perception of the world, and therefore to create a commitment to its transformation. This schema, very simple in appearance, is actually the conjunction of three processes: first, the production of a sensory form of 'strangeness'; second, the development of an awareness of the reason for that strangeness and third, a mobilization of individuals as a result of that awareness.”

“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.”

“Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.”

“Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or write or sing, no magic diet, no world poets, and no chosen races, but only the wretched and wonderfully diversified human race.”

“There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason.”

“Our fate is shaped from within ourselves outward, never from without inward.”