Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

... if you love your country why is it necessary to hate other countries?

I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An awful lot of people feel that they're treading water -- that if they vanished in smoke, it wouldn't mean anything at all in this world. And that's a despairing and destructive feeling. It'll kill you.

Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of men. This group will be called the Establishment. It exists even though that existence is stoutly denied. It is one of the secrets of the American social order... A second secret is the fact that the existence of the Establishment - the ruling class - is not supposed to be discussed.

Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him. Willy: Then what have I got to remember?

An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.