This Power Elite directly employs several millions of the country´s working force in its factories, offices and stores, controls many millions more by lending them the money to buy its products, and, through its ownership of the media of mass communication, influences the thoughts, the feelings and the actions of virtually everybody. To parody the words of W. Churchill, never have so many been manipulated so much by few.

[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.

Somewhere in the rain, there will always be an abandoned dog that prevents you from being happy.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

Ending is better than mending.

Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.

If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.