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

The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

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

The immediate cause of World War III is the military preparation of it.

Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.

History is the shank of the social sciences.