Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.

Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

The only truly consistent are the dead.

Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made the means, but as the means to producing a race of free individuals, we have only two alternatives to choose from: either a number of national

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.