Advertising is 'an evil service'.
Although I am not myself a devotee of bigness for bigness sake, I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.
Damn it all, you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.
Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual.
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.
Man must first live before he can live abundantly.
Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the 'greatest good for the greatest number' can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual.
Politics is a blood sport.
Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets.
The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him.
The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
The spectacle therefore afforded us by the United States is one of technical brilliance and social blindness.
This is my truth, tell me yours.
Virtue is its own punishment.
We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.
You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.
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