It is possible that an individual may be successful, largely because he conserves all his powers for individual achievement and does not put any of his energy into the training which will give him the ability to act with others. The individual acts promptly, and we are dazzled by his success while only dimly conscious of the inadequacy of his code.

In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's "Messiah," it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences of training and cultivation between them and the voices in the chorus, are lost in the unity of purpose and in the fact that they are all human voices lifted by a high motive.

If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

The classical city promoted play with careful solicitude, building the theater and stadium as it built the market place and the temple.

Must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy.

The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.