Quotes by Alfred Griswold

• Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.
• The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.
• The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
• In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
• Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.
• A Socrates in every classroom.
• It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.