This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you’ve got it when you can’t think of anything that’s your fault.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg’s great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death.

America’s experiment with government of the people, by the people, and for the people depends not only on constitutional structure and organization but also on the commitment, person to person, that we make to each other.

It has been said that we have not had the three R’s in America, we had the six R’s; remedial readin’, remedial ‘ritin’ and remedial ’rithmetic.

Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised.

On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don’t need to worry about anybody.

More free time means more time to waste. The worker who used to have only a little time in which to get drunk and beat his wife now has time to get drunk, beat his wife – and watch TV.

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching – without these a university cannot exist.

Most people spend their time on the ‘urgent’ rather than on the ‘important.’