For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end... such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.

You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society,historical time period in which they live,personal troubles, and social issues

The principal cause of war is war itself.

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

To accept opinions is to gain the good solid feeling of being correct without having to think.