The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice.

Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or moribund, and, when we diagnose each case... we invariably find that the cause of death has been either War or Class or some combination of the two.

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

My advice to any traveler who is traveling in order to learn would be: 'Fight tooth and nail to be permitted to travel in what is technically the least efficient way.'

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.