Intellect Is Resented As A Form Of

It Is The Historic Glory Of The Intellectual Class Of The West In Modern Times That, Of All The Classes Which Could Be Called In Any Sense Privileged, It Has Shown The Largest And Most Consistent Concern For The Well-being Of The Classes Which Lie Below It In The Social Scale.

To Be Confronted With A Simple And Unqualified Evil Is No Doubt A Kind Of Luxury.

It Has Been Our Fate As A Nation Not To Have Ideologies But To Be One.

If For Every Error And Every Act Of Incompetence One Can Substitute An Act Of Treason, Many Points Of Fascinating Interpretation Are Open To The Paranoid Imagination.

If There Is Anything More Dangerous To The Life Of The Mind Than Having No Independent Commitment To Ideas, It Is Having An Excess Of Commitment To Some Special And Constricting Idea.