quotes about Joe Mccarthy

“My interest in science was excited at age nine by an article on astronomy in National Geographic; the author was Donald Menzel of the Harvard Observatory. For the next few years, I regularly made star maps and snuck out at night to make observations from a locust tree in our back yard.”

“The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.”

“Truth is always duller than fiction.”

“Am I being typecast as a horrible person? I don't know. I don't think so. But if it happens, I'd rather get to play that, because there's nothing fun about being sweet. Sweet can be so boring, so I'd be happy staying away from that.”

Source : "There's nothing fun about being sweet" by John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.

“A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.”

“It was not really possible to understand oneself, let alone another human being.”

“Problems emerge and some people try to sweep them under the rug.”

“But, as all scientists know, there is a time lag of 12 to 18 months between the time a manuscript is submitted and the time it is published in a scientific journal.”

“Since Martin Luther closed his eyes, no such son of our people has appeared again. It has been decided that we shall be the first to witness his reappearance.... I think the time is past when one may not say the names of Hitler and Luther in the same breath. They belong together; they are of the same old stamp.”

“Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.”

Source : Sidney Hook (2002). “Sidney Hook on Pragmatism, Democracy, and Freedom: The Essential Essays”, Pyr Books