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In societies no less than individuals, acknowledging our limitations may ultimately be more humane than denying them.

I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

People should be respected for the strength of their convictions, and I also believe in freedom of expression.

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities.

Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.