Great Throughts Treasury

"If we always live our lives with a view to the worst possible outcome of anything, then we will become a much diminished society. Every human endeavor has risk attached."

"Gluttons no longer gorge themselves; they are simply suffering from one of a variety of eating disorders."

"What we are doing is making children more insecure as our alarmist message becomes part of everyday life."

"If you look at the research that's published, it's always 'Research says that such-and-such will happen if you suntan,' and attached to that is usually a demand for more research money. That's how the fear market is created."

"Even in the most favourable periods for cultural development, intellectuals tend to have uneasy relationship with the status quo."

"Intellectuals are not defined according to the jobs they do, but [by] the manner in which they act, the way they see themselves, and the values that they uphold."