A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.

Industrial man—a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation.

Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.