It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it.

The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other economic groups.

A state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.

A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished.

It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.

Even today few scientists and perhaps even fewer nonscientists realize that science is a method and nothing else.

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.