"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!”

“Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.”

“My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately”

“Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto humanity.”

“But Noah, you're not supposed to do this, and I can't let you. So go back to your room." Then smiling softly and sniffling and shuffling some papers on the desk, she says: "Me, I'm going downstairs for some coffee. I won't be back to check on your for a while, so don't do anything foolish." She rises quickly, touches my arm, and walks toward the stairs. She doesn't look back, and suddenly I am alone. I don't know what to think. I look at where she had been sitting and see her coffee, a full cup, still steaming, and once again I learn that there are good people in the world.”

“Abraham Maslow said that the fully realized person transcends his local group and identifies with the species. But the election of Ronald Reagan might've been the beginning of my giving up on my species. Because it was absurd. To this day it remains absurd. More than absurd, it was frightening: it represented the rise to supremacy of darkness, the ascendancy of ignorance.”

“My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.”

“Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.”

“Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great.”