When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.

Our political organization, based as it is on an eighteenth-century separation of powers and on a nineteenth-century nationalist state, is generally recognized to be semiobselete.

I am now quite sure that Tragedy and Hope was suppressed although I do not know why or by whom

It is clear that every civilization undergoes a process of historical change. We can see that a civilization comes into existence, passes through a long experience, and eventually goes out of existence.

A fully integrated culture would be like the dinosaurs, which had to perish because they were no longer able to adapt themselves to changes in the external environment.

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.

The very idea that there is some kind of conflict between science and religion is completely mistaken. Science is a method for investigating experience... Religion is the fundamental, necessary internalization of our system of more permanent values.