According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man — secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it — is among the damned. I'm on my own. You've got your God.

I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached.

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

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

History is the shank of the social sciences.

The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.